XVI TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PART IV. 



RESTIVENESS : ITS PREVENTION AND CURE. 



CHAPTER I. 



HOW TO RENDER HORSES OBEDIENT. 



'Disobedience or restiveue?s not to be confounded with vice — 

 A horse is stronger than a man ; therefore nothiug 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 restivenes, 271-294 



CHAPTER II. 



GENERAL R,ULES 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 ma}^ 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 sa j^, 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, 



295-310 



