. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. JUNE 13, 1903] ®ta gveebev anir Qpoxt&maxi Equine Intelligence. I 4o not think that anyone familiar with sporting and shepherd dogs and horses used for special purposes will doubt that their brain is of greater capacity than the ordinary. We know that the Bhepherd and bird dog will go to work without any training. Their efforts may be misdirected but tt ey show evident sense ot something to be done in their particular lines. You can take a yearling thorough- bred off the farm, among the strange sights of the streets and freight yards, load him on the cars a
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. JUNE 13, 1903] ®ta gveebev anir Qpoxt&maxi Equine Intelligence. I 4o not think that anyone familiar with sporting and shepherd dogs and horses used for special purposes will doubt that their brain is of greater capacity than the ordinary. We know that the Bhepherd and bird dog will go to work without any training. Their efforts may be misdirected but tt ey show evident sense ot something to be done in their particular lines. You can take a yearling thorough- bred off the farm, among the strange sights of the streets and freight yards, load him on the cars and he will not become panic-stricken as a common horse, lam inclined to think that the more concentrated food fed to high class horses and on which they may almost be said to subsist has much to do with their intelligence. I remember a case of suckling draft filly which had been cut in the wire and was kept in the stable for a couple of months, thoroughly halter-broken and led in and out to water three times a day. In her yearling form she was allowed to remain on a bottom pasture until the grass had been frosted and lost its nutriment. She did not look thin but dull and when placed in the Btable she seemed to have forgotten everything. She would not lead, had to be taught over again and was very much slower to learn than the first time. In a fews days I took her out and tried to teach her to drive about the yard with the reins. She seemed to be an absolute idiot, unable to assimilate an idea of any kind. I kept her a month, put her in condition and she learned as quickly as any horse of her kind. I have always found that the more above himself you get a young horse the easier it is to teach him. He is more receptive, because more resistant. Although one prefers to speak of training rather than breaking a horse, I am not sure that the latter term is not the better description so long as it does not apply to his spirit. You break him of all his nat- ural habits, from going wher
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