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 . ucks until ex-hausted, in his endeavor to throw his rider. He is thenturned about and ridden into camp, the hair of his tailsquared off to indicate that he is broken, and he is againturned loose. The Indians of our Western plains catch the horse witha lasso, and with a
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 . ucks until ex-hausted, in his endeavor to throw his rider. He is thenturned about and ridden into camp, the hair of his tailsquared off to indicate that he is broken, and he is againturned loose. The Indians of our Western plains catch the horse witha lasso, and with a small hair or raw-hide rope form a noosearound the lower jaw for a bridle, mount, and let the horserun until exhausted. Cold-blooded horses may be subduedwith considerable success by this means, but those of awarm-blooded, courageous nature, if given freedom to runin this way, would be liable to go until they dropped dead, Fig. 253.—The Leg-strap. 364 SUBJECTION. or until the constitution was so seriously injured as to ruinthem. Any method of lowering the vitality will make a horsegentle, such as physicking, bleeding, tying down, deprivingof water, food, sleep, subjecting to intense pain, etc., whichcan be carried to any extent desired; but the trouble isthat when the horse regains his strength, or recovers from the. Fig. 254.—The horse ready to thrown. effects of the pain, he is liable to become as bad as be-fore. By disabling any part of the body, there will be pro-duced a corresponding sense of helplessness and example, tying one ear down or twisting it is regardedby many as quite a secret to make a horse stand to be is quite a trick among many jockeys, in driving a kicker,to tie the tail to the crosspiece, or forward by a string tothe belly-band, having discovered that a horse will not kickif the tail is disabled or cannot be raised. It is on this
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