148 ILLUSTRATED HORSE-BREAKING. 



find out his own power of resistance — a species 

 of knowledge which our rapid style of breaking 

 never permits him to acquire. If the animal 

 sulks, or exhibits deliberate impatience of control, 

 he should be conquered, then and there, as I have 

 mentioned on page ii. 



The crttpper leading-rein. — Whichever style of 

 breaking be adopted, the first step that I would 

 advise, is to accustom the horse to the " crupper 

 leading-rein," which can be readily made by 

 taking a long rope, doubling it, making a loop in 

 the middle by knotting it, and passing the loop 

 under the horse's tail, and the ends of the rope 

 through the halter, or rings of the snaffle (see 

 Fig. 37). By using this leading-rein in preference 

 to one attached to the head-stall or halter, the 

 animal will never attempt to *' hang on " the 

 leading-rein, as he will often do with the other, 

 and, when led, instead of "going on his fore-hand," 

 will move, as he ought to do, '' collectedly," on 



