TKACHING THICK?. l.")3 



There are a number of different ways to teach a 

 horse to drive without lines^ but I sliall not attempt 

 to describe any except my original process. 



DRIVING WITHOUT LINES. 



My plan for teaching a horse to drive without 

 bridle or lines, is first: Turn the horse loose in an 

 enclosure about twenty-five feet square, take an 

 ordinary buggy wliip and go into the enclosure with 

 him and overcome the fear of the whip and teach him 

 to have implicit confidence in you, by the process that 

 I have explained under Colt Training. After he has 

 learned to come to you at the command "Come Here," 

 and shows no fear of the whip while you gently wave 

 it over his head and body, and will follow you all about 

 in the ring, 3^ou then have a good foundation laid for 

 further instruction. Put the horse away until the next 

 dajy when you should take him back to the same place 

 and proceed to teach him the signals of the whip. Stand 

 close to the horse's hip and take a -short whip and tap 

 lightly on the right shoulder, until the horse, in antic- 

 ipation of driving a fly ofi^, will swing his head around 

 to where the tapping is; step forward quickly and hand 

 him a few oats, or a small piece of apple, almost in the 

 act of turning his head around. Step back and continue 

 the tapping and rewarding. After a while, in hig 

 eagerness for the reward, he will take a step or two to 

 the right when the tapping begins; then caress him 

 and treat him Yerj kindly for that act. By this process 

 in a short time you will have conveyed* your idea to the 

 horse that when he is tapped on the right shoulder 



