CHAPTER II. 



INDIRECT INDICATIONS OF THE CURB-BIT. : 

 IN THE DOUBLE BRIDLE. 



THE trained horse should be ridden with the 

 reins held in one hand, the other being 

 free, to assist the bridle-hand or for any other 

 purpose. It will be necessary to teach the horse 

 to obey the touches of the curb-rein upon the 

 neck, or the indirect indications of the curb-bit, as 

 we may call them, so that the bridle-hand may 

 control the movements of the horse without the 

 aid of the snaffle, which up to this time has been 

 the bit in which the horse has been trained. 



The trainer must see that the horse under- 

 stands and obeys the direct as well as the indirect 

 indications of the curb-bit, for they are not incom- 

 patible, and it will be safer for the latter to be 

 preceded by a slight suggestion of the direct 

 touch of the bit in the manner I shall hereafter 

 explain. 



