ON BEEAKING AND TEAIXING HOESES. 201 



And here again, as I pointed out in teaching a 

 horse to leap when ridden, the evil arises from people 

 trying to teach the colt more than one thing at once. 



JS'ow teaching a horse to carry a rider along a 

 road involves several things, and each of these things 

 should be taught him as far as is possible separately 

 from the others. 



Thus one of the things is to get him to allow a 

 man to put a saddle on his back and get up and sit 

 on it, without the colt either being frightened or 

 trying to throw the rider, and this has no reference 

 whatever to the horse being taught to go along a 

 road, and could and ought to be taught entirely in a 

 loose box, or after that in a barn or small yard 

 with high walls round it. 



Similarly, teaching a horse to go straight along 

 a road without stopping to look at things, or shying, 

 or trying to run away, although it is a necessary 

 part of breaking, has no connection necessarily with 

 havmg either a saddle or a man on him, and would 

 be much better taught separately. 



Perhaps I shall be best understood if I say that 

 a horse ought to have learnt to go perfectly quietly 

 along a road, and to pass objects without being 

 frightened, icithout a man on his back, before he is 

 allowed to go on the road with a man on his back ; 

 and conversely, that he should have become tho- 

 roughly used to having a saddle on, and a man 

 mounting and dismounting and sitting on his back, 



