INDEX. 



357 



Limping, 346 



Litter, pawing back the, 337 

 Long reins, 83, 168, 237 

 Lunging horse, 81 



MACHINE, horse-taming, 161 



Magic touch, 31 



Magner, 198 



Mahomet, the talking horse, 342 



Mane of racehorses, plaiting, 10 



, scratching, 22 



Mange provoking kicking, 337 

 Mares, 18, 28, 39, 177, 265 

 Martingale, running, 90 

 , standing, 87, 190 

 Memory, 2, 5 



Mental qualities of the horse, I 

 Military exigencies, 49 



riding, 67, 78 



Miller, Capt. E. D., 295 



Mind, i 



Mitchell, Mr., 333 



Monkey, II, 14, 22 



Moore, Mr. J. H., 193, 238 



Morgan, Professor, 3, 13 



Mount, difficult to, 323 



Mountain paths, 13 



Mounted breaking, 201 



Mounting, Australian method of, 205 



horse for first time, 202 



Mouth, 48, 55, 59, 76 



, hardness of, 73 



Mouthing, theory of, 58 

 Mules, 12, 1 6, 296 



NECK muscles, 70 



, stiffness of, 73 

 Nerves, i 



, over-stimulation of, 33 

 Nervousness, 24-26 



and vice, distinction between, 24 

 Nervous system, I 

 Newmarket, 185 

 "No!" 342 

 Noose twitch, 122, 165 



Noose which will not run, 121 

 Noosing fore leg, 109 

 Nose-bands, 90, 92 

 Nymphomania, 19, 163 



OBEDIENCE, necessity of, 44, 57, 62, 



306 



Obstinacy, 26 



Off fore, cantering with, 227 

 Offett, Denton, 160 

 Orders, making horse understand our, 



35 



Ourang-outang, n 

 Outside car, 257 

 Over-reaching, 244 



PACERS to trot, teaching, 320 



Pad, driving, 172 



Pain (see also punishment), 38, 41 



Pallin, Mr., 324 



Park hack, 292, 295 



Pas (Thole, 267 



Passage, the, 273, 278, 290 



Passage, le, 267 



Pawing at night, 337 



back the litter, 337 



Peat, General, 144 

 Permanency in breaking, 55 

 Personal influence, 53 

 Petting horse, 44 

 Phonograph, 3 

 Piaffer, 267, 287 

 Piaffer ballote, 287 

 Pigeon, tooth-billed, 4 

 Pillars, the, 92, 192 

 Pirouette ordinaire, 273 



renversee, 272 



Plaiting mane of racehorses, 10 

 Plank, see-sawing on, 349 

 Pluck, 23 



, spoiling, 46 

 Plunging in harness, 322 

 Points of the Horse, 78, 87, 186, 223, 



228, 250, 251 



