CHAPTER II. 



RIDING THE YOUNG HORSE. 



A CERTAIN amount of discipline having 

 been established while upon the cavesson, 

 and the young horse having found that there 

 is nothing to dread in the approach or in the 

 touch of its master, we arrive at the most impor- 

 tant, and not the least difficult, part of the 

 education of the animal. The manner in which 

 the colt is taught to bear its rider will have 

 a very marked influence upon its future useful- 

 ness ; but any man of ordinary intelligence 

 should be able to make the colt quiet to ride, 

 if he be patient and firm. The horse should 

 be saddled with care, the girths being but 

 moderately tight, and the stirrups arranged so 

 that they shall not touch the sides of the horse. 

 The horse must now be taught something of 



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the effects of the bit. I find that this, and some 

 other matters connected with the general prog- 



