. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. e feet alittle, if you can, backward. This to be repeated until he will moveback by pulling gently upon the reins and saying Back. Let thisbe the object of two or three short lessons, so as to get him to comeback at command, but not to go back too freely for this reason : If 120 COLT TRAINING. a colt is made to come back too easily, should he become frightenedat anything in advance of him, and especially if pulled back suddenly,he is liable to go back too far, and thus learn the habit of
. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. e feet alittle, if you can, backward. This to be repeated until he will moveback by pulling gently upon the reins and saying Back. Let thisbe the object of two or three short lessons, so as to get him to comeback at command, but not to go back too freely for this reason : If 120 COLT TRAINING. a colt is made to come back too easily, should he become frightenedat anything in advance of him, and especially if pulled back suddenly,he is liable to go back too far, and thus learn the habit of runningback, turning around, upsetting the wagon, and getting away, one ofthe worst habits a horse can acquire. This point of coming back accomplished, now stand a little side-ways and bring the pole across against the quarters, then betweenthe legs and under the body until it is submitted to bring back against the pole or rail anything about as high asthe cross-piece of shafts when in harness, as shown in Fig. 147. This submitted to unconditionally, with sufficient control of the. Fig. 148.—Bringing Pole against Quarters when First Driven in Harness. mouth to hold a colt under any degree of excitement, the next stepis to drive in shafts. If he becomes excited or stubborn at anypoint, particularly if he resists the bit hard, the better way will be toput him away until cool, when by repeating the lesson he will soonwork in. At this point there is great danger of spoiling the mouth,because when the blood becomes much heated the sensibility of themouth becomes so blunted that he will bear to have it cut to pieceswithout seeming to feel it ; but when over the excitement it will beso sensitive and sore that he will be liable not only to yield toofreely, but, as before stated, acquire the habit of running back ; hencethe necessity of being careful in this respect. The course I foundeasiest and best was to get two poles, something like hop poles,about twelve fe
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