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 . first-class kicker, andwanted a little fun out of him. Atfirst, he did not seem to be very bad,but as he warmed up he kicked withthe greatest fury; and after twohours effort, I was compelled to givehim up, failing completely. TheviLi. of most ^^^^^j real
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 . first-class kicker, andwanted a little fun out of him. Atfirst, he did not seem to be very bad,but as he warmed up he kicked withthe greatest fury; and after twohours effort, I was compelled to givehim up, failing completely. TheviLi. of most ^^^^^j really kicked worse than when obstinate cases. ^ i • i 1 commenced. Upon returning tothat place four years afterward, I was surprised to learnthat this pony had been used as a pet by the little boysand girls of the family; that hewas driven and used everywhereto a phieton, and was one of thefinest and safest driving poniesin that country. The owner toldme that a day or two after hishaving been handled by me, theythought they would see whatthey could do with hiin, and totheir surprise they found feim per-fectly gentle. They put him inharness, and he drove off without any trouble. lie be-haved so kindly that the children drove him, and he washighly valued for his docility. I found by experience that many cases when Fig. —Will resist hard. DETAILS OF 177 up would resist with such desperation that it would be verydifficult and dangerous to force them to a point of submis-sion ; yet by putting them away until cool, and then re-peating the treatment, they would submit perfectly in a fewminutes. Some of my greatest feats in breaking extremelybad kickers have been accomplished in this way. The ne-cessity for this repetition was fre-quently the cause of great em-barrassment. Perhaps an ex-tremely bad horse broughi iiicfor experiment would become sowarmed up, and resist with somuch determination, as to makethe continuance of the effort littleless than abuse. My
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