68 ANGLO-FRENCH HORSEMANSHIP 



you want them to do to you, and with animals this 

 nearly always succeeds in matters connected with 

 temper. " Feel angry if you like, but do nothing," 

 is a good motto, the horse senses the feeling and 

 appreciates the self-control. Force should always be 

 tempered by intelligence. A man who aspires to be a 

 fine horseman mu^t educate his feelings so that they 

 may lead to right thoughts and right acts. It is also 

 as well to consider the advisability of the line of action 

 which feelings suggest before troubling to express them. 

 The duty of the will is to keep the mind open and 

 liquid, so that the truth can float quickly to the top, 

 and the muscles uncontracted, so that they can act 

 immediately. 



To animate, the whip should be applied down the 

 shoulder ; to punish it should strike the horse just 

 behind the rider's leg, or on the leg that has done wrong, 

 or on the nose. When hit much behind the girths a 

 horse is inclined to cringe and kick, or back, instead of 

 dashing forward, as the effect is to bring the hind legs 

 under the body, whereas a hit on the fore hand causes 

 a horse to strike out with his fore legs and increase his 

 pace ; moving the stick forward near the neck makes 

 him stride out in the gallop. 



The first use to be made of a whip is to teach a 

 horse to advance when tapped on the chest ; the horse 

 should be held firmly Avith a lunging rein and tapped 

 with increasing force on the chest until he advances, 

 when he should be made much of : when he has learnt 

 this lesson it will hardly ever be necessary to hit him 

 behind the girths, and it is easy to make him go up 

 to a gate to open it, or to jump a fence with a rider up 

 or not, by just tapping his chest. 



A horse learns from the association of one sensation 



