1Q8 THE ART OF TAMING HOESES. 



and the right hand guide him, by being used the 

 strongest ; in turning to the left, both legs should urge 

 him, and the left guide him by being pressed the 

 strongest. Don't turn into the contrary extreme, 

 slackening the left rein, and hauling the horse's head 

 round to the right. 



The same rules should be observed for making a 

 horse canter with the right leg, but the right rein should 

 be only drawn enough to develop his right nostril. 



Eeining Back. You must collect a horse with your 

 legs before you rein him back, because if you press him 

 back first with the reins he may throw all his weight on 

 his hind legs under him, stick out his nose, hug his 

 tail, and then he cannot stir you must recover him to 

 his balance, and give him power to step back. This 

 rule is often neglected by carters in trying to make the 

 shaft-horse back. 



Hearing. Knot the snaffle rein loose it when the 

 horse rears put your right arm round the horse's 

 neck, with the hand well up and close under the horse's 

 gullet; press your left shoulder forward so as to bring 

 your chest to the horse's near side, for, if the horse falls, 

 you will fall clear ; the moment he is descending, press 

 him forward, take up the rein, which, being knotted, is 

 short to your hands, and ply the spurs. But a horse, 

 after being laid down and made walk, tied up like the 

 zebra a few times, will seldom persist, because the mo- 

 ment he attempts to rise you pull his off hind leg under 

 him and he is powerless. 



Leaping. The riding-school is a bad place to teach 

 a horse to leap. The bar, with its posts, is very apt to 

 frighten him ; if a colt has not been trained to leap as it 

 should be by following its dam before it is mounted, 

 take it into the fields and let it follow well-trained 



