STUD BOOK. 1C7 



BREAKING TO HARNESS. 



Mr. Rarey is entitled to every credit for introducing a 

 novel mode of controlling a vicious horse, which is also of 

 service in training cavalry and circus horses. Beyond these 

 departments, however, his plans effect no good, and instead 

 of improving the mouth they have a tendency to injure it I 

 have shown that time and patience are grand elements of 

 success in horse-breaking, and that it is a disadvantage to has- 

 ten the process, which is all that Mr. Rarey pretends to ef- 

 fect "We do not want to manage our horses without reins, 

 but on the contrary to guide them and stop them with the 

 slightest possible touch consistent with the equilibrium to 

 be maintained in the saddle. Hence the first object is the 

 formation of a good mouth, and as this requires a consider- 

 able time to develop, there are ample opportunities for grad- 

 ually accustoming the colt to the presence and control of his 

 master while it is being produced. 



THE EAKLY PROCEEDINGS 



in breaking a colt to harness are exactly the same as for the 

 saddle, and indeed it is well in all cases to make him handy 

 to ride before he is put into the break. We may therefore 

 assume that this has been done, or at all events that a good 

 mouth has been made, and the colt handled and accustomed 

 to bear the hip-straps hanging loosely over his sides prior to 

 putting him in harness. 



THEEE IS SOME DIFFERENCE OF OPINION 



among breakers as to the best plan of conducting this oper- 

 ation. Some contend that for every kind of harness the 

 horse ought to be put in with another, who will compel him 

 to move or stop at the will of the driver. Others assert that 



