34 HUMANE HORSE-TRAINING 



However, I must not lose sight of my main subject, 

 and will return to the education and training of the 

 horse. 



HOW TO BREAK A COLT. CONFIDENCE IN MAN 



Presuming that the colt has been got up from the fields 

 into the stock-yard or loose-box, we will now proceed 

 to gain his confidence. 



Turn him into an enclosure about twenty feet square ; 

 if this is not convenient, a good roomy loose-box will do 

 just as well. 



At the present moment I am training a thoroughbred 

 colt ; he is a big, handsome chestnut gelding, seven years 

 old and quite unhandled, so he requires more patience 

 and a thoroughly good system with which to work. In 

 spite of so-called horsemen expressing their opinions as 

 to the impossible task I have undertaken in attempting 

 to break a seven-year-old wild, unhandled colt or horse, 

 when I got him safely home, I stabled him in a large loose- 

 box. It was dark, so I had the use of a lamp. When 

 Bobby saw his own shadow on the wall he became so 

 infuriated that he fought at it viciously, kicked his 

 heels up, and tried to bite it, the result being a full stop 

 when his teeth bit the wall. I was obliged to remove 

 the lamp and close the door. This will show his pluck ; 



