174 ILLUSTRATED HORSE-BREAKING. 



the whip will soon teach him to come round 

 quickly. When he Is perfect In circling and 

 turning at the trot, we should teach him to rein 

 back, taking care to ease the reins and allow him 

 to '' collect " himself, after each step he takes to 

 the rear. When turning, stopping, restraining, or 

 reining back the horse, our pull on the reins — to 

 use Mr. John Hubert Moore's expression — should 

 resemble that which we would employ in drawing 

 a cork out of a bottle, It being free from any 

 snatch or jerk. While circling the horse, the 

 breaker should stand to the side and a little 

 to the rear of the animal (see Fig. 43). This 

 mouthing on foot should, I think, be confined 

 almost entirely to circling, with, of course, frequent 

 changes, and occasional reining back, and should 

 be continued until the required softness of mouth 

 and suppleness of neck are attained. If the 

 animal be found to be *' harder" on one side of 

 the mouth, than on the other, he should be 

 worked more on the former, than on the latter ; 



