. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : 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 .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). 106 COLT TEAINING. give a sharp, raking jerk to pull liiin back a little, and re- peat until he will back as desired. Do not force him to ba
. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : 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 .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). 106 COLT TEAINING. give a sharp, raking jerk to pull liiin back a little, and re- peat until he will back as desired. Do not force him to back too freely, but just enough to give to a slight pressure of the bit. If there is much resistance to the driving bit, the Breaking Bit may be substituted, but this must not be used so severely as to bruise or make the mouth sore. If he becomes warm and decidedly stubborn at any point, the better way will be to put him away until cool, when, by repeating the lesson, he will soon work in. At this point. Fig. 101.—Backing the colt against rail or pole. there is great danger of .spoiling the mouth, because when the blood becomes greatly heated, the sensibility of the mouth is so blunted that he will bear having it bruised and even cut to pieces without noticing it. But when over the excitement, it will be so sensitive and sore that he is liable not only to yield to the pressure of the bit too freely, but acquire the habit of running back. Hence the advisability of putting him away until cool, and then repeating the les- son, when the mouth will he sufficiently sensitive to com- pel submitting freel3^ If he is given to running away, and resists the bit so hard that he cannot be held, first, OA^er-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Magner, D. (Dennis), b. 1833; Fairman Rogers Collection (Univers
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