HEAD AND TAIL METHOD. 



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assistant at each of the traces should pull them tight, and 

 then bring him down. As soon as he is on the ground, he 

 should be gentled and handled all over for a few minutes. 

 The process may be repeated or prolonged as may be 

 required. If, say, the off trace be tightened up and 

 buckled, the aid of the assistant, who would otherwise have 

 held this trace, may be dispensed with. This method of 

 throwing the horse is the gentlest in its action of any I have 

 seen. If the appliances and help be at hand, and time be 

 no object, I would recommend that it should be always 



Fig- 77- Horse tied head and tail. 



used as a preliminary to that of making a horse lie down 

 by pulling his head round (see page 144), so as to take some 

 of the " fight " out of him, and to prevent him, as much as 

 possible, from " knocking himself about." 



THE HEAD AND TAIL METHOD. 



The earliest mention of this method which I can find, is in 

 Mr. R. Jennings's " Horse Training Made Easy," published 

 in 1866. In this book it is referred to as if at that time it 

 was a well-known plan for subduing horses. Whoever was 

 its inventor, Sample merits the credit of having introduced 



