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 . ride and handle. The greatest effort hadbeen made for yearsto break this horse,but without the time of myvisit to the place, allhope of ever beingable to subdue himhad been subjected him tothe First Method,which he at first vio-lently resisted, bu
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 . ride and handle. The greatest effort hadbeen made for yearsto break this horse,but without the time of myvisit to the place, allhope of ever beingable to subdue himhad been subjected him tothe First Method,which he at first vio-lently resisted, butafter being thrown about a dozen times he submitted un-conditionally. It was not sufiicient, however, to producethe degree of submission desired, and he was next subjectedto the Second Method, which he also resisted with greatcourage, requiring in all about twenty minutes. The foun-dation was now laid for the next step,—that of obtainingcontrol of the mouth. This was, if anything, his strongpoint, having resisted all kinds of bits and rigging. When tested with the Breaking Bit, he plunged againstit, fighting so hard that at one time he wxnt over the ropeupon the seats. By careful management, however, he wasin about twenty minutes brought under perfect morning I tested him hard in the ring, and found him. Fig. 168.—The Malone Horse. THE ]\IALONE HORSE. 199 manageable. I now took him outside tiie city to knowdefinitely what he would bear in the street. Upon carefultrial he proved entirely manageable, when I drove him now trained him to stop, turn right and left, to the mo-tion of the whip, continuing the lesson about ten minutes,resting as long, then repeating until he would turn rightand left as desired. I employed every spare moment inthis way up to 12 oclock, when I hitched him up withoutreins, letting shafts go against the quarters, etc., and droveto the square, where there was a large crowd, and proved
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