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Question. How would you break and train a colt, and at what 

 age would you give the colt his first lesson ? 



Answer. The first lesson to give a colt should be to turn him 

 into a box stall or enclosure of some kind about twenty feet square, 

 taking in your right hand a whip and approaching the colt. If he 

 runs away from you give him a crack of the whip around the hind 

 limbs and follow this up until he will turn his head towards you. 



then throw the whip back under your left arm, holding out your 

 right hand, using the words " come here." If, as you approach the 

 colt, he turns to run away from you, give him the whip. When he 

 comes to you offer him an apple. In thirty or forty minutes' time 

 you will teach him that it is wrong to turn his heels towards you ; but 

 when he finds he is being rewarded he will soon learn that the right 

 way is to keep his head to you. 



When working with a colt always have plenty of patience ; go 

 slow and easy, be gentle with him and learn him as you would a 

 child his A, B, C's. 



