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enumerated kicking and biting in or out of the stable ; 

 kicking at the leg of the rider or driver, either when 

 mounting into the saddle or at any other time ; or rearing, 

 or running away, or rubbing the rider's leg against any- 

 thing, or lying down when wanted to proceed, or falling 

 on the side, or stopping suddenly when in a fast pace, 

 or violently insisting upon going to any place that the 

 horse happens to have been at before. Jibbing, or re- 

 fusing to proceed, is a vice ; so is backing against the 

 owner's will, or turning round with violence when not 

 required so to do, unless this results from the mis- 

 management of the user. A refusal to stand still in 

 order to be mounted, if from ill nature, may also be 

 classed under this head. Bucking, or raising the back 

 when mounted, and then putting the head between the 

 fore-legs and jumping, is a disagreeable and dangerous 

 vice ; so is the trick of swelling out the body till either 

 the girths or straps to which they are buckled give way. 

 If horses are guilty of any of the vices here enumerated 

 and have been sold as well-broken horses, warranted 

 free from vice, they are returnable. The half-broken 

 colt may be guilty of some of these habits without 

 being vicious; but thenceforth it depends upon the 

 way of procedure. 



This being merely a catalogue of vices, some of them 

 will be more particularly described under their re- 

 spective headings, together with their causes, effects, and 

 remedies, in order that buyers may know where certain 





