Gleason's horse book The only authorized work by America's king of horse tamers, comprising history, breeding, training, breaking, buying, feeding, grooming, shoeing, doctoring, telling age and general care of the horse . animal, readyto obey any command that you give him; but you must not whip orspur him. Now, if you ever find a horse that drops in on the topof his head and full between his eyes and a kind of a Roman neck oehim, and the face between the eyes dished out, these are generallyhorses that have some vicious or bad vice, and have a treacherouaand vicious disposition. Question. What
Gleason's horse book The only authorized work by America's king of horse tamers, comprising history, breeding, training, breaking, buying, feeding, grooming, shoeing, doctoring, telling age and general care of the horse . animal, readyto obey any command that you give him; but you must not whip orspur him. Now, if you ever find a horse that drops in on the topof his head and full between his eyes and a kind of a Roman neck oehim, and the face between the eyes dished out, these are generallyhorses that have some vicious or bad vice, and have a treacherouaand vicious disposition. Question. What colored horses are of the best disposition? •-Answer, Daring my professional career of over fifteen years, andLiving handled in the neighborhood over horses, 1 hav« found the easiest subjects were horses of the following colors: Black,dark bay, dark brown and chestnut. Horses of iron gray, lightchestnut or sorrel and light bay generally are horses of a mean dis-position or a very stubborn will. Thoroughbred horses require more hard work and longer lessonsto get them under perfect control than a cold-blooded horse, butwhen once thoroughly taught what you want him to do he willaever forget your How do you handle a whip to make * colt come for- Answer. Take hold of his halter with one hand (left hand), takea bow whip in your right hand, let the cracker of the whip touchhim on the tail, carrying the whip directly over his back, as seen inthe above engraving; touch him lightly with the whip and saj•come here. — 108- Question. How would you break and train a colt, and at whatage would you give the colt his first lesson ? Answer. The first lesson to give a colt should be to turn himinto a box stall or enclosure of some kind about twenty feet square,taking in your right hand a whip and approaching the colt. If heruns away from you give him a crack of the whip around the hindlimbs and follow this up until he will turn his head towards you,
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