io8 METHODS OF HORSE-CONTROL. 



LIFTING UP A FORE LEG. 



Having haltered the horse, we may, in order to gain 

 further control over him, take up a fore leg in one of the 

 following ways : 



i. If we are afraid that the horse on our approaching 

 him will " strike out " or kick, we may, as Colonel Rawlings, 

 R.H.A., showedjne, form a noose about two feet and a half 

 in diameter, with a rope ; and having laid it on the ground, 

 give the free end to an assistant to hold. We may then 



Fig. 2^. Noosing horse's fore leg. 



make the horse move about until he places one fore foot 

 within the noose (see Fig. 26), when the assistant should 

 pull the rope, and thus lasso the pastern. Or a rope with a 

 loop at one end of it may be worked round the near 

 fore leg (supposing we are standing on the near side) 

 by means of a stick, and brought back to the hand ; the 

 other end of the rope may be passed through the loop, and 

 the pastern noosed. The end of the rope may now be 

 thrown over the animal's back to the other side, and the 

 leg pulled up (see Fig. 27) and secured by passing the rope 

 round the base of the neck (see Fig. 28) ; or the leg may 



