CHAPTER V 

 TRAINING TO SADDLE 



IF you have effected the coup suggested 

 at the end of the last chapter, and 

 backed your horse as he rose at the end 

 of the massage seance, you will have very 

 little trouble in training him to saddle. But 

 for various good reasons you may have pre- 

 ferred not to attempt this, although, as a 

 matter of fact, it is attended with very little 

 risk, either as to the unsettling of the horse, 

 or of damage to yourself. If you elect not 

 to try it — proceed with the haltering of the 

 horse as first directed, but leave the end of the 

 halter rope loose and throw it on his neck. 

 Instead of riding him round the straw-yard, 

 let him follow you quite loose, which he will 

 do, and stop, when you stop. Then take the 

 end of the halter, keeping it slack, and let him 

 follow you again without any pull. Make the 

 first pull at right angles to his centre fine and 

 proceed as before. 



Repeat the programme for the next three 

 or four days, and, when he is thoroughly used 



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