

INDEX. 



287 



Hickman, Colonel, 74, 249 



Hind-leg, gentling, 135 

 , lifting up, 126, 135 



Hind-quarters, fixing, 60 



Hippo-lasso, 119 



Hobble, improvising a, 143 



Holding horse down, 165 



Holding up fore-leg, 96 



Horse-breaking, object of, I 

 , scope of, 14 

 , value of, 14 



Horse-control, 77 



How it is done, 32 



IDIOCY, 21 



Improvised gear, 272 



Instinct, 7 



Intelligence of the horse, 9 



JIBBING, 18, 19, 60, 227, 236 

 Jump, teaching to, 188 

 Jumping faults, 230 

 Jumping over another horse, 261 

 Jumping too slowly, 230 



KEEPING A HORSE ON THE 



GROUND, 157 

 Kemp, Mr., 217 

 Kicker, touching a, 7 

 Kicking, 238, 244, 252 

 Kicking at night, 252 

 Kicking from nervousness, 4 

 Kindness, 36 

 Kissing, 265 



LADIES' HORSES, BREAKING, 209 

 Laughing, 265 

 Leach, Mr., 96 



Leading-rein, crupper, 148 

 Leg, outward, 56 

 Leg strap, Rarey's, 99 

 , stirrup leather, 105 

 Lie down, making a horse, 153 

 Lifting up fore-leg, 93, 94, 96 



hind-leg, 126 

 Linguist, 10 



Litter, pawing back the, 256 

 Log for jumping, 188 

 Loose horse, haltering, 80 

 Lunging, 64 

 Lying down, 265 

 Lying down in harness, 240 



MAGNER, 151, 218 

 Making horse lie down, 153 

 Manners, testing, 27 1 

 Martingale, running, 52 

 , standing, 70 

 Mathematician, 10 

 Memory of the horse, 9 

 Mental qualities of the horse, 7 

 Methods of breaking, various, 29 

 Military exigencies, 34 



riding, 52 

 Mitchell, Mr., 239 

 Moore, Mr. J. H., 174, 190, 249 

 Mount, difficult to, 12, 223 

 Mounting, Australian method, 204 



horse for first time, 197 

 Mouth, 30 

 , faults of, 216 

 , testing, 271 

 Mouthing gear, 166 

 , on foot, 172 

 , principles of, 41 

 Mouth-piece, action of, 47 



