252 ILLUSTRATED HORSE-BREAKING. 



told that a good way is to shorten the rack chain, 

 by tying it with a piece of thin twine, so that 

 when the animal pulls on the chain, he will break 

 the twine, and will then cease to pull, on the pre- 

 sumed supposition that he has broken the chain. 

 For horses with this habit, it is common to place a 

 broad band across the lower part of the stall, so as 

 to allow the animal to rest against it, if he likes. 



Kicking. — See Chapter XV. We may, also, 

 teach the animal to "stand over" in his stall, by 

 pulling his head round with a cord attached to the 

 side of the head-stall, passed through a ring on 

 the top of the roller, and carried outside of the 

 stall, while giving, simultaneously with the pull on 

 the cord, some appropriate verbal order, such as 

 "over ! " (See Fig. 47.) 



Kicking at night. — I have no experience in break- 

 inof horses of this habit. I would suesfest the 

 employment of the strait-waistcoat, which should 



