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 . or accident the rein is caught under thetail, or the cross-piece or whiftletree should come suddenlyagainst the quarters, those parts being practically unbroken,or not accustomed to such contact, the horse is liable to beso excited and frightened as to kick; and once st
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 . or accident the rein is caught under thetail, or the cross-piece or whiftletree should come suddenlyagainst the quarters, those parts being practically unbroken,or not accustomed to such contact, the horse is liable to beso excited and frightened as to kick; and once started inthis habit there is increased inclination to do so until con-firmed in it. Now all this could be prevented without the (152) GENEEAL KEMAI^KS. 153 least dilUciilty by fifteen or twenty minutes treatment,which would make the horse entirely insensible to suchcauses of contact. It is a habit also that merges into somany other faults that destroy the value of the horse andrender him unsafe for use, that I consider it advisable tomake this chapter as full in the details ofmanagement as spacewill permit. There is no reason to suppose that a horse isnaturally bad and unmanageable because he kicks. Thepoint is to make him sufficiently gentle to safely bear, with-out kicking, the restraint and excitement necessary in har. Fig. 123. —Treatmeut that only confirms the habit. ness. Or when the habit is once formed to so combat itthat all tendency to repeat it is overcome. In the chapter on Colt Training I have given details ofthe treatment to be pursued for the management of excit-able colts, or those that kick. It also includes directionsfor overcoming fear of the wagon, and other causes of ex-citement, until proved gentle to control, and the treatmentas given there for such cases should be studied in connec-tion with this. In the chapter on Teaching Tricks, which can also be re-ferred to, I have explained that the principle of breakingup and overcoming a habit is exacth^ the rev
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