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and the next day I could teach it something directly 

 <^posite. and it would then retain both ideas. I soon 

 learned that my system of colt training was not only 

 the proper way of training colts, but that it was equally 

 applicable to all spoiled horses; as it is almost invari- 

 ably the rule for all spoiled horses, or any horses having 

 vices, to have but little or no education at all. And 

 how can you expect them to obey your command and 

 act intelligently without first teaching them what to 

 do? After you have subdued the bad, vicious, or un- 

 ruly horse, and made him willing to do all that he un- 

 derstands, it is just as important and necessary to 

 treat him with gentleness and kindness, and teach him 

 what you want him to do, as it is to be gentle and 

 patient with the colt. There is no better way of teach- 

 ing them what to do than to follow my system of colt 

 training. In all my private training of bad horses, 

 the first thing I do is to give them a course of sub- 

 jective treatment, to get them under control. Then 

 I always give them a repetition of colt training. Con- 

 trolling physical resistance is but a temporary bridge 

 acro>s a stream to enable us to build the real structure. 

 So subjection is but the means for reaching trie brain 

 to remove the exciting cause of resistance. If the 

 resistance is stimulated by fear, then show there is 

 no cause for fear — if through real viciousness, then 

 remove the sentiment by kind treatment — when the 

 horse's reason can be moulded and instructed as de- 

 sired. I claim there is no education in subjection any 

 further than it teaches the horge we are his master. 



