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 . Fig. 63.—Second Form ofWar Bridle. But if a cold-blooded fellow that shows considerable resist-ance, and stands sullenly in defiance of the pulling, afterpulling a few times go to theopposite side and repeat in thesame manner. This will helpto disconcert him, and weaken
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 . Fig. 63.—Second Form ofWar Bridle. But if a cold-blooded fellow that shows considerable resist-ance, and stands sullenly in defiance of the pulling, afterpulling a few times go to theopposite side and repeat in thesame manner. This will helpto disconcert him, and weakenhis resistance. Sometimes theresistance may last ten minutes,or even longer, the horse per-haps, bracing himself stub-bornly; but even this shouldbe no cause for repeat the treatmentslowly, or not fast enough toget out of breath, for when thehorse does come it will be all atonce with a jump, when in most cases he will be found bro-ken, following and leading anyw^here without being pulled upon, in an av-erage case thefirst pull will usu-ally pull thehorse off his feet,and after being-pulled upon sev-eral times, hewill usually fol-low promptly. This is an im-portant point in Fig. 04.—Second Form of War Bricle as it should breaking double j^*^^- l)alkers,—to first 5. G6 METHODS OF SITBJECT10^\ make the horse come ahead until ho will follow without re-sistance, then, as described under that head, the power ofthe gentle horse is brought upon him until he Avill go aheadas desired. Putting this part over th(! head, about half way backon the neck, drawing down tightly and tying into a half-hitch, is a good way to keep the head down to bridle, etc.,but it should not be kept tied more than a minute or two.
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