. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . FiG. 86.—Simple way of haltering a dangerous colt. ous monster, whipping them while talking in an unknownlanguage, indicating by his actions that he would kill or in-jure them, they would become so frightened and excited (91) 92 COLT TEAINING. that their first impulse would be, resistance, or a desperatestruggle to get away. Now this is the impression made upon the wild, un-broken colt when hurt, frightened, or excited, in the effortto train and control him, and which in a proportionate de-gree must increase the difficulty of his successful mana
. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . FiG. 86.—Simple way of haltering a dangerous colt. ous monster, whipping them while talking in an unknownlanguage, indicating by his actions that he would kill or in-jure them, they would become so frightened and excited (91) 92 COLT TEAINING. that their first impulse would be, resistance, or a desperatestruggle to get away. Now this is the impression made upon the wild, un-broken colt when hurt, frightened, or excited, in the effortto train and control him, and which in a proportionate de-gree must increase the difficulty of his successful manage-ment. It is important, on this account, that every step in. Fig. 87.—Testing a doubtful colt before subjecting to treatment. the management of these cases be of a character to preventand overcome fear, when the instruction and training canbe carried forward to the degree of the colts ability to un-derstand, and there is perfect obedience. Haltering. To halter an unbroken colt, first turn him into a mod-erate-sized room or carriage-house, without stalls or any- HALTEEING. 93 thing which he can run against to hurt himself. It wouldalarm him too much to try to catch and hold him to puton the halter, and besides, there is danger of getting difficulty can he easily overcome as follows: Get alight pole ten feet long, and drive two nails in it abouteight inches apart, the first about one inch from the a common rope halter, and form a running noose withthe part which slips through it back about two feet. Hang
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