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 . )rubbing and bringing the pole against the quarters andflanks until there is unconditional submission. Sometimes young horses of this character are very greatest average of the w^orst horses I have ever foundhave been iron-gray, sorrel, or black, though I have o


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 . )rubbing and bringing the pole against the quarters andflanks until there is unconditional submission. Sometimes young horses of this character are very greatest average of the w^orst horses I have ever foundhave been iron-gray, sorrel, or black, though I have occa-sionally found bays extremely bad. But the case must bevery bad that will not yield readily to the Second and. Fig. 135.— As some very bad kickers will act when touched. Third Methods. The First in many cases will be foundequally effective. A great deal depends upon how thetreatment is applied. A man may use either or all themethods, supposing he has done all that it is possible to do,and fail in subduing the horse, yet I may use the sametreatment immediately afterward and succeed without dif-ficulty, the only difference being in the proper applicationof the treatment. (These conditions will be found explainedin connection with the description of each method in thefirst chapter.) When done properly, it should seldom re-quire more than thirty or forty minutes to subdue evenvery bad cases. GENEEAL REMAEKS. 163 The point accomplished of making the horse gentle inone position to be handled and poled, it must be carried todriving in harness, which is the real point to be attained;for however gentle the horse may be at this stage, he maystill resist with great recklessness when driven to


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