KICKING. 49' 



ing one side or part of the colt or horse gentle and saib- 

 missive to having anything come in contact with it will 

 give no assurance in having the opposite side, or other 

 parts touched and handled. All members of the body 

 must be made submissive alike. It would only require 

 a very short time to make all members of the body 

 entirely indifferent to such causes of contact by follow- 

 ing our poling process explained in Colt Training: 

 beginning at the nose, and rubbing the pole over the 

 mane, back, bell}', quarters, and all the sensitive parts 

 of the body, until all the muscles become relaxed. The 

 first tiling to be done to break a horse of kicking should 

 be to make a good, reliable foundation before hitching 

 him up, by giving him a complete handling and a 

 thorough course of subjection. The best methods for 

 subduing bad kicking horses are throwing them 

 and the use of the Double Safety Eope. Take the horse 

 on a soddy piece of ground or in a straw yard, and 

 throw him five or six times, according to our way of 

 laying a horse down, ^ow while he is down, keep 

 liold of the end of the strap and have your attendant 

 throw buffalo robes, umbrellas and flags' over him, and 

 rattle tin pans, sleigh bells, beat drums, play hor-se- 

 fiddles, etc., in fact all the rackets you can scare up. 

 As he attempts to get up pull on the straps, which will 

 roll him back on his side. If he is sensitive about the 



