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I have had many hundreds of horses with 

 various forms of *' pain in the temper " pass 

 through my hands, and, out of all these, selected 

 from thousands of other animals, I met with 

 only one or two which I would call incapable of 

 being made serviceable on account of absolute 

 idiocy. Hence, I conclude that cases of marked 

 mental aberration are extremely rare in the horse. 

 I do not think that I met with more than one 

 horse which appeared incapable, from natural 

 nervousness, of being rendered quite steady. 



As the breaker has to work on the material 

 at hand, and as he has no power to change 

 the nervous organisation of the animal, however 

 well he may establish the habit of implicit 

 obedience, it is impossible for him to make a 

 naturally sulky animal work with the gaiety 

 of heart and pluck, that an honest horse will 

 display. 



Necessity for obtaining control over the Horse. — 



