SHYING. 



CHAPTER V. 



I shall first give you some of the causes for horses 

 fihying, and also how to prevent them from getting 

 into the habit. I believe in the old sayings "an ounce 

 of prevention is worth a pound of cure.'* The habit of 

 shying is formed on the same principle that the habit of 

 balking is. I claim that the driver always shies, or 

 .gets away from the true principles of horsemanship 

 first. For instance, the driver is driving a nervous, 

 y^oung horse^ and he comes to a stone, stump, log,, or 

 anything else that the horse does not understand, and 

 gets a little frightened at. The first thing the driver 

 thinks of, is to pull out the whip and score him past; 

 and possibly whip him five minutes after he is past the 

 object: and say, "I'll show you how to get scared." 

 Remember, the horse can think of only one thing at a 

 time. 



ISTow while he is eyeing the stone or log, and you are 

 whipping nim, what is it that the horse thinks is hurt- 

 ing him? You would say the whip, but I would say, 

 no! It is the object that he is looking at that inflicts 

 the pain, and the next time you come to the object 



