138 SYSTEMS OF HORSE-BREAKING 



movement, the breaker employs a side rein on the off side, 

 he will attain his object, but at the expense of having the 

 'animal's head turned away from the direction in which he is 

 proceeding. I need hardly point out to capable horsemen 

 that in either case the horse is going in bad style, which 

 is an atrocity that no good breaker should permit for a 



moment. The fact that this survival of the dark acres is 



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generally practised all over the world, only proves the great 

 need of reform in horse-breaking. In the manner in which I 



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lunge a horse with two reins, he is "collected" in a similar 

 way to that adopted by a competent horseman ; the head 

 being turned inwards by the inward rein, and the hind-quarters 

 being kept in position by the outward leg of the rider or by 

 the outward rein of the breaker who is lunging the animal on 

 foot. 



