. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. ^ tying the tail down to the cross-piece of the shafts or forward to the belly-band of the harness, sothat it cannot be raised ; because disabling the tail creates such asense of helplessness as to counteract the inclination to kick. Sometimes checking the head high will accomplish the sameresult. Puttingcobbles or shot inthe ears will, onthe same princi-ple, sufficientlydisconcert a balkyhorse to make himgo right bycovering the eyesonly carries thisto a greater ex-ten
. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. ^ tying the tail down to the cross-piece of the shafts or forward to the belly-band of the harness, sothat it cannot be raised ; because disabling the tail creates such asense of helplessness as to counteract the inclination to kick. Sometimes checking the head high will accomplish the sameresult. Puttingcobbles or shot inthe ears will, onthe same princi-ple, sufficientlydisconcert a balkyhorse to make himgo right bycovering the eyesonly carries thisto a greater ex-tent, and will befound in mostcases to makequite a stubbornhorse work withexcellent success. Fig. 56.—a Noted vicious rnrNCiPLEs of treatment. 43 The secret of the first horse-tamer of whom I have any account—Dick Christian of England — consisted simply in tying up thefore leg, and then mounting and riding the horse until next step in this direction was disabling both fore legs, and thusforcing the horse to lie down, which carried this principle to agreater degree of perfection. This was regarded a very rare secret,and was the basis of the methods practiced by Bull in England, Sul-livan in Mallow, Ireland, Denton Offutt in Kentucky, and O. H. in Ohio, who were the first, most pretentious, and noted,before the advent of Rarey, who learned the secret of Denton Offutt,
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