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 . nd was ablind, gray stallion in Pittsburg, Pa. This horse was astrong-muscled, heavy-boned fellow, with a remarkably finehead,and was a perfect model in points of strength and endur-ance. Ordinarily, he showed every indication of being nat-urally gentle, but by bad trai
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 . nd was ablind, gray stallion in Pittsburg, Pa. This horse was astrong-muscled, heavy-boned fellow, with a remarkably finehead,and was a perfect model in points of strength and endur-ance. Ordinarily, he showed every indication of being nat-urally gentle, but by bad training had become vicious, andwhen roused or excited was a perfect bull-dog. Thoughcompelled to handle him at a great disadvantage in a barn,I succeeded, after much efibrt, in making him sufficientlygentle to handle for the time, which was in reality a greatfeat. Sometimes stallions, especially of this character, areliable to develop very peculiar whims in the way of affectionor hatred. I have frequently found horses that would beperfectly gentle toward certain persons,^ but entirely un-manageable toward others. I will giA^e here one verymarked case, formerly owned by me. A* ten-year-old Gif-ford-Morgan stallion, owned in Bath, Steuben Co., N. Y.,was of a fine, intelligent, docile disposition naturally, but S04 EFFECT OF TEEATMENT. 305 when excited he showed an under-current of great will andcourage. He was raised in Gowanda, N. Y. I bought himfor the purpose of training him to drive without reins, andsucceeded in making him drive very nicely, holding himgentle. For a stallion, he was singularly free from all in-clination to bite, and other habits of viciousness. Later, Isold this horse, with another, for breeding purposes, to FredArnd, a hotel keeper in Bath, N. Y. Mr. Arnd (who was
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