30 ILLUSTRATED HORSE-BREAKLNG. 



vice, is as arrant a quack as the man who foists on 

 the pubHc a pill for the removal of every kind of 

 disease. In the following pages I shall describe 

 various breaking methods, which the reader can 

 apply according as he recognises the cause of resist- 

 ance to his wishes, or of inability to understand 

 them. 



Giving a Horse a good motithy the chief requirement 

 in breaking. — The horse's mouth ought to be the 

 foundation of all good breaking ; for an animal with 

 a good mouth can hardly "do wrong"; unless, 

 indeed, under very exceptional circumstances. As 

 it is impracticable to be constantly repeating any 

 "taming" method, such as Rareyfying, or tying a 

 horse by his head and tail, we must disregard such 

 practices as means for the maintenance of a perma- 

 nent state of discipline — however useful they may be 

 for enforcing authority in the first instance — and 

 must trust to the influence of the rein, which is ever 

 constant on the mouth, when riding or driving, to 



