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prevent him from perpetually wanting to trot, and 

 hunger will make him put the best leg foremost to 

 get home to his stable and corn. When he is 

 accustomed to walk well and fast, and to continue 

 at that pace without altering it, he will walk when- 

 ever jou require him. 



'Next to learninof to walk he should be taugrht to 

 trot, and here the reverse process should be adopted. 



In this case you should teach him to trot when 

 he is fresh instead of tired, and when he has his 

 head away from home instead of to it. 



When he is fresh and full of life he will lift his 

 feet and throw them out, better and with more 

 vigour than when he is tired ; and when he has his 

 head turned from home he will not pull so hard, and 

 will be more easily taught to go with his head loose, 

 because he will not be so anxious to get to his 

 destination. 



It would not, in my opinion, take any longer to 

 teach an unbroken horse to trot with his head loose 

 than to walk ; but, as I am supposing that the horse 

 is already broken, he will probably be much more 

 troublesome to teach to trot than to walk, in this 

 manner. The way to teach him is to start him at 

 the pace you want him to go, and when he has gone 

 a little way slacken his rein. He will most probably 

 start on quicker, and then you should pull at him 

 rather sharply, and speak to him at the same time ; 

 but as soon as he returns to the pace you want him 



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