FAULTS OF MOUTH. 



out blinkers than with them. If it be imperative that 

 our pupil should be driven in an ordinary harness bridle, 

 we may accustom him to it after we have got him to go 

 steadily in an open one. 



If a jibber appears afraid of the whip, it is well, in the 

 first instance, to prove to him, by giving him a turn at 

 the head and tail method (see page 155), that we are not 

 going to hurt him, when we crack it or flourish it about in 

 his vicinity. 



The jibber in double harness may be cured of his vice in 

 the manner already described. If a pair jib, they should 

 be broken of this vice separately, before being tried to- 

 gether. 



REARING 



is of two kinds ; one, the less common, the manifestation 

 of impatience to go on by a horse which is too " light in 

 front " ; the other, a form of jibbing. Horses whose vice 

 comes under the first heading are naturally " free goers," 

 and are willing to proceed in any direction, though they 

 resent being kept in the same spot. As a rule, they ex- 

 hibit this " defence " only under occasions of excite- 

 ment. They are extremely liable to be converted into 

 jibbers by bad management. Rearing jibbers, as I may 

 call those horses which practise the second form of rearing, 

 are often light-mouthed horses ; though I have met many 

 hard pullers among the number. When a horse which is 

 " heavy in hand " rears, we may conclude that he com- 

 menced his tricks as a jibber, and finding, probably by 

 accident, that an attempt at rearing discomfited his 

 would-be master, he cultivated the art of standing on his 

 hind legs from that time. I might mention a third form 

 of rearer who deliberately tries to crush his rider by 

 throwing himself backwards on him. He appears to be 



