INDEX. 



359 



Shoulders fining down, 66 



Show-jumper, the, 251 



Shying, 5, 222, 316 



Side reins, 92, 192 



Sieve of corn, 12 



Sight, sense of, 20 



Signals, horse understanding our, 35, 



37, 40 - 



Sleeping standing, 338 

 Smell, sense of, 21 

 Smith, Mr. Norton, 160 

 Snaffles, 79, 168, 243, 264, 307 

 Snake, 20 

 Soldier, 67 

 South Africa, 28, 32, 161, 164, 165, 



328 

 Spanish trot, 80, 261, 285 



walk, 80, 261, 284 

 Speed when jumping, regulating, 244 

 Spiti, 4 



Splinter bar, tying tail to, 334 

 Spoiled horses, 49, 54 

 Sprain of hind legs, 68, 230 

 Spurs, 232 



Stall, hanging back in, 340 

 Standard, Evening, 160 

 Standing behind breaker, danger in 



96 



Stand still, making horse, 106 

 Star-gazing, 74, 91, 175, 308, 319 

 "Steady!" 36, 118,324 

 Stick, 59, 165 



Stirrup leather for leg strap, 113 

 Stopping by word, 177 

 Strait-jacket, 129, 154 

 Strength, knowledge of his own, 46, 50 

 Stubbornness, 51, 151 - 

 Stumbling, 10 



Submission to superior power, 22 

 Sulking, 26, 27, 32, 51, 149, 158, 166 

 Surroundings, 34 

 Sword, unsteady with, 325 



Tail rope, 145, 152 



, rubbing the, 337 

 , short, 141 



to splinter-bar, tying, 334 

 : with tape, tying, 337 



" Taking off," when jumping, 244 

 Talking horse, 342 

 Tattenham Corner, 289 

 Temper, faults of, 323 

 Tent- pegging, 317 

 Tiger, 5, 23 



Time required for breaking, 233 

 Touch with horse, keeping in, 76 

 Treachery, 22, 28, 51 

 Trooper, 201, 293 

 Trot, the, 218, 266, 279 

 -Trying yearlings, 288 

 Turn, difficult to, 317 



hind - quarters away from us, 



teaching horse to, 164, 331 



on forehand, 193, 212, 271 

 on hind-quarters, 272 



on three legs, 286 



Turning at liberty, 273 



horse, 63, 81, 179, 218, 220, 294 



Turpin, Dick, 345 

 Twitch, bridle, 123 



, halter, 116 

 , headstall, 122 



, noose, 122, 165 



, ordinary, 116, 118, 120, 125 



, rope, 118, 165 

 " Tying horses up," 92 



UNDERSTANDING our orders, horse, 35 

 Unharness, difficult to, 338 

 Uniformity of conduct, 22 

 Unsteadiness, 325 



VARIETY in breaking methods, 55 



Vice, 24, 50 



Voice, effect of, 41, 42, 60 



TAIL, bandaging, 337 

 over rein, 339 



WALK, the, 71, 217 

 Waltzing, 350 



