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 . come dizzy. Were he to suddenly reverse themotion, the effect would be so intensified as to cause fall-ing. The effect is the same upon the horse, and gives al-most unlimited poAver in the control of wild, nervous, vi-cious, kicking, runaway horses. I once had such a ho
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 . come dizzy. Were he to suddenly reverse themotion, the effect would be so intensified as to cause fall-ing. The effect is the same upon the horse, and gives al-most unlimited poAver in the control of wild, nervous, vi-cious, kicking, runaway horses. I once had such a horse brought to me to experimentupon before a class. He was a nervous, kicking, runawayhorse of the worst character. When hitched to a buggy,he became frightened, kicked, and ran away, tearing thebuggy to pieces. He was so desperately afraid of a wagonthat he could not be put in shafts or even brought near SECOND METHOD. 39 them. After working upon him for two hours, aided bymembers of the class, and resorting to every device in mypower for his control, I completely failed. I was nettled,yet bound to succeed, but How? was the question. Atthis juncture I happened to think that turning aroundquickly several times in succession caused extreme dizzi-ness and helplessness. The question followed, If I could make the horse turn. Fig. 32.—Method of tying halter to the tail. around rapidly, why could I not neutralize and overcomehis resistance in this way? I remembered having onceseen a dog in play catch his tail in his mouth and runaround, and it occurred to me that by tying the horseshead to his tail he would possibly turn himself around. Idid so, as shown in cut 32, and to my surprise and satis-faction he went around rapidly, and in a short time fellover, dazed and helpless. Soon recovering, he jumped up,turned rapidly as before, and again fell over. In course 40 METHODS OF SUBJECTION. of a few moments he fell over three times. (See cut 34)As before explained, he was extremely nervo
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