> 20 ILLUSTRATED HORSE-BREAKING. 



connected with harness, on the contrary, the 

 breaker can always find some suitable spot on 

 • which to work his will on the disobedient one, 

 under every advantageous condition. I say this 

 with every reasonable reserve ; for we may meet 

 with cases, sometimes, of saddle vices — such as 

 running away on a race-course, only, when 

 galloped — to which it is difficult to directly 

 apply efficient breaking methods. 



Unless when caused by disease, as, for in- 

 stance, chronic sexual excitement in the mare, 

 defects of vision, and pain in the legs or feet, 

 which might make a horse refuse to jump, 

 practically speaking, almost any riding or driving 

 vice (I naturally exclude those vices that concern 

 the veterinary surgeon, and not the breaker) can 

 be overcome in time, say within a week or ten 

 days ; although I readily admit that I have been 

 beaten in a few cases (about two per cent, of faulty 

 horses) when my time was limited, or when I did 

 not possess the experience I have since acquired. 



