Handling the Young Horse. 17 



tion, or carriage of the trained animal, I see 

 nothing objectionable in it. This is the method 

 followed by some of the best horsemen. One of 

 these, a professional trainer, is so successful in 

 his management of vicious horses, that I have 

 frequently heard him say that he did not find 

 anything wrong in certain animals which were 

 turned over to his care as unruly by their 

 owners. 



The education of the horse cannot be begun 

 too early. There is no reason why a yearling 

 should not be as thoroughly disciplined as an 

 old-school horse, and the early training will last 

 during the life of the animal. Training does not 

 injuriously affect the vivacity or the spirit of the 

 horse ; on the contrary, a cold-blooded drudge 

 can be made active and mettlesome by a course 

 of schooling. Witness Alidor, the horse em- 

 ployed to furnish the photographs for the first 

 edition of " Modern Horsemanship," a coarse, 

 heavy colt, which was brought to perform the 

 high-school movements with grace and precision. 

 The mare which was used for most of the illus- 

 trations in the present work, better bred than 

 Alidor, is an example of the fact that a long 



