Xll TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAET III. 



EESTIVENESS I ITS PREVENTION AND CURE. 

 CHAPTER I. 



HOW TO RENDER HORSES OBEDIENT. 



Disobedience or restiveness not to be confounded with vice 

 A horse is stronger than a man ; therefore nothing is to be 

 done by mere brute force Usual cause of insubordination 

 is injudicious treatment Character of the horse English 

 method of training or handling young horses Continental 

 or school methods Advantages or disadvantages of these 

 two ; their description ; how they may be best made appli- 

 cable to the prevention and cure of restiveness, . 203-226 



CHAPTEE II. 



GENERAL RULES FOR THE TREATMENT OF RESTIVENESS. 



Avoid opportunities of conflict Ascertain how restiveness was 

 caused, and when first shown, the temper and general dis- 

 position of the animal ; also its condition must be taken 

 into account If practicable, the handling of restive horses 

 should be undertaken in an enclosed space, a riding-school, 

 or the like What may be done when nothing of this kind 

 is available The first great object is to get a horse to go 

 somehow, then afterwards in obedience and in a certain 

 form Generally speaking, restive horses should be treated 

 as if they had never been handled at all ; that is to say, they 

 should be re-trained from beginning to end The position 

 generally assumed by restive horses How to get them out 

 of this " Unfixing " a horse from the spot Treatment of 

 a horse that backs How to use the spurs and the whip, 227-242 



