30 ILL USTRA TED HORSE-BREAKING. 



vice, is as arrant a quack as the man who foists on 

 the public a pill for the removal of every kind of 

 disease. In the following pages I shall describe 

 various breaking methods, which the reader can 

 apply according as he recognises the cause of resist- 

 ance to his wishes, or of inability to understand 

 them. 



Giving a Horse a good mouth, the chief requirement 

 in breaking. The horse's mouth ought to be the 

 foundation of all good breaking ; for an animal with 

 a good mouth can hardly " do wrong " ; unless, 

 indeed, under very exceptional circumstances. As 

 it is impracticable to be constantly repeating any 

 ''taming" method, such as Rareyfying, or tying a 

 horse by his head and tail, we must disregard such 

 practices as means for the maintenance of a perma- 

 nent state of discipline however useful they may be 

 for enforcing authority in the first instance and 

 must trust to the influence of the rein, which is ever 

 constant on the mouth, when riding or driving, to 



