HOW TO TEACH A COLT 189 



perfectly broken, who had as exceptional manners as he 

 had beauty, and who was on trial in a friend's hands at 

 one hundred and fifty dollars asking price. I have paid 

 five hundred for less good ones, and would willingly give 

 a thousand for a couple well -mated. Beyond simple 

 training the accomplishments of the country horse will 

 not extend ; it is for you to teach him. Or, if you still 

 insist that a trot and canter are all that you want, you 

 can for the same price, or fifty dollars more, buy in K~ew 

 York, Philadelphia, or Boston a nice moving colt, broken 

 to harness, and willing to trot kindly under saddle. The 

 latter will need much more to make him a saddle-horse, 

 for he has had no saddle ancestry. Still it can be done. 



Where, you say, shall we learn how to teach this colt ? 

 Well, now you have asked me a delicate question. But if 

 a man will not cry his own wares, how can he expect 

 others to advertise them for him ? I have tried to tell the 

 how in a little Chat in the Saddle, named after " Patro- 

 clus" and u Penelope," two capital nags of mine, still alive 

 and at work, hale and hearty, at near twenty years old. 

 And for fifteen years they have not skipped a day's 

 work or, rather, seen a day when they were not fully up 

 to a good bit of work. If you want higher training, Col. 

 Anderson's Modern Horsemanship will help you. Any 

 of the Baucher manuals will do ; and there are a number 

 of others. But all this is apart, for the Ad. is really not 

 a paid one. 



How much must the colt learn to be worthy the name 

 of "saddle-horse?" According to my standard the least 

 education which will make him perfect should include : 



1. A busy walk, well up k) four miles an hour. If 

 your colt is naturally a slow walker many good ones of 

 trotting ancestry are and you cannot appeal to his am- 

 bition so as to encourage him into a good walk which he 



