The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . Fig. 254.—The horse ready to thrown. effects of the pain, he is liable to become as bad as be-fore. By disabling any part of the body, there will be pro-duced a corresponding sense of helplessness and example, tying one ear down or twisting it is rega
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . Fig. 254.—The horse ready to thrown. effects of the pain, he is liable to become as bad as be-fore. By disabling any part of the body, there will be pro-duced a corresponding sense of helplessness and example, tying one ear down or twisting it is regardedby many as quite a secret to make a horse stand to be is quite a trick among many jockeys, in driving a kicker,to tie the tail to the crosspiece, or forward by a string tothe belly-band, having discovered that a horse will not kickif the tail is disabled or cannot be raised. It is on this. HISTOEICAL FACTB. 365 principle that many headstrong horses can be driven gentleby checking the head high. A man named who had considerable notoriety as a horse-tamer in Englandnearly one hundredyears ago, basedhis whole successin the managementof horses upon ty-ing up the fore leg,Avhen he wouldmount and ride the ^^^- ^-^^^ ^°-^*^p ^^^•^• horse until gentle. Disabling, or tying up both fore legs,and throwing the horse down, carried this principle to stillgreater perfection. The first published account I find ofthis method of subjugation being practiced was by a mannamed who lived in Stanton-le-Vale, Lincolnshire, England. Thisman had quite a local reputation for his power over correspondent of Bells Life, published in London, whogave Bull one guinea to teach him the secret, described hismethod as follows :— First, buckle a surcingle around the body; second, tieup the fore leg by buckling a strap tightly around the footand fore-arm ; next, attach a strap to the off for
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