. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. this could be referred to did space permit ; but to showthe value of the treatment here given when properly applied, I willrefer onh- to a few cases, as an aid to the reader in making experi-ments. First. A five-year-old stallion, owned in Northern Indiana, thathad resisted all treatment. This horse was naturally very gentle,but had been frightened in driving, and could not be put in the (148) GEXERAL NEJfAFKS. 149 shafts. He was driven entirel)- gentle in twelve minutes before theclass.
. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. this could be referred to did space permit ; but to showthe value of the treatment here given when properly applied, I willrefer onh- to a few cases, as an aid to the reader in making experi-ments. First. A five-year-old stallion, owned in Northern Indiana, thathad resisted all treatment. This horse was naturally very gentle,but had been frightened in driving, and could not be put in the (148) GEXERAL NEJfAFKS. 149 shafts. He was driven entirel)- gentle in twelve minutes before theclass. Second. An eight-year-old trotting-horse in Cleveland, O. Thiscase would kick and run away in spite of all that could be utmost effort made to break him had failed. The disbelief inmy efforts was so great, that, for a test case, I was compelled to buyhim at a large price, and was entirely successful in bringing himunder the most perfect control in about forty minutes ; and to thesurprise of everj-body he was driven next day on the square per-fectly docile, without bridle reins, or Fig. IsG.—Trealmenl that only Confirms the Habit. Tltird. In ^Mansfield, O., a thoroughbred trotting-mare, sevenj-ears old, had kicked from the time she was three years old, and, indefiance of the utmost effort, became entirely unmanageable. Thiswas a severe test case, no one believing that she could be was controlled with entire success and driven in the streetwithin an hour, and proved afterward one of the gentlest and finestdriving mares in the country. Fourth. A seven-year-old horse in Putney, Vt. This was apon\- horse of remarkable courage and pluck, would run away re-gardless of all that could be done, and was one of the most desperatekickers I ever saw. Upon a test, he pulled six men by the bit, threemen to a rein, across the floor, and this with the Breaking Bit in hismouth. He was brought under perfect control in about three quar-ters of an hour, and proved
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