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too low or too far out, to bore on the bit, as though he 

 would drive his fore-feet into the ground, neither let him 

 commit the opposite fault of throwing his whole weight 

 on his haunches as if to rear, and so make eyery step a 

 miniature jump. The habit of "boring" is inveterate 

 with some horses, and can not easily be contended against 

 by ordinary means. Baucher had a device, which he 



Fig. 17. — bauchee's treatment of boring. 



withheld from publication, that is very efcective. Both 

 curb-reins and the left snaffle-rein being held in the left 

 hand, in its proper j)osition, the right snaffle-rein only 

 is taken in the right hand and drawm upward, so as to 

 press the snaffle against the corner of the mouth on one 

 side, as shown in the engraving. This has an effect that 

 an upward pressure on both snaffle-reins entirely fails to 

 produce, and its knowledge has given to the personal 



