1 8 Curd, Snaffle, and Spur. 



course of training is beneficial ; for at fifteen 

 years she is full of life, mettle, and action, al- 

 though a child might ride her. I wish to say 

 here that there is one class of horses that it is 

 useless to attempt to train or to use. These are 

 such that from deficiency in cranial development, 

 or from some lesion or injury to the brain, are 

 subject to fits of terror and wild excitement ; for 

 although even these may be taught to obey the 

 aids, their attacks are frequently so sudden that 

 the rider is in peril before he can attempt to 

 obtain control. The outward conformation some- 

 times marks these animals, even to the inexperi- 

 enced, and I have never known the small, pro- 

 tuberant eye (known as the buck's eye) fail to 

 give true warning that its possessor is a danger- 

 ous and useless fool. 



With the young horse brought to the trainer 

 already disciplined from its early days, or with the 

 three-year-old simply halter-broken, we should 

 proceed in the same manner, although in the 

 first instance the preliminary lessons would be 

 far shorter, and rather as a test to see how far 

 the discipline had been carried. The cavesson 

 (a leather head-collar with a jointed metal nose- 



