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INDEX. 



Difficult to unharness, 235 

 Direction of pull of the reins, 50 

 Dismount from, difficult to, 223 

 Docile, rendering horses, 147 

 Dogs, 28 

 Doing wrong, not getting a chance 



of, 23 

 Double hitch Buonaparte bridle, 



114 

 Double sheet-bend, 136 

 Drench, difficult to, 223 

 Driving newly-broken horse, 247 

 Driving pad, 166 

 Dumb jockeys, 69 

 *' Dwelling " on his stride, 51 



Elastic reins, 69 



Esa, Mr., 118 



Expedition in breaking, 33 



Fatigue, 25 

 Fanchion, 114, 151 

 Fence, riding at a, 59 

 Fences, running out at, 231 



„ , rushing at, 232 

 Field, the, 256 

 Fighting the horse, 37 

 Finish of a race, 5 1 

 Fire, unsteady under, 226 

 First step, 32 

 Fixing hind quarters, 60 

 Following, 261 

 Foreleg, holding up, 96 



„ , lifting up, 93, 94, 96 



„ , taking up, 88 



„ , tying up, 99, 102 

 Frasier, Mr., 113 



Gagging a horse, 143 



Gag, wooden, 145 



Gateacre, Colonel, 143 



" Game," nervous horses not, 6 



Gear, improvised, 272 



Genthng hind leg, 135 



Gentling neck, 81, 88 



Gentling the horse, 1 5 1 



Going level, 5 1 



Good hands, 65 



Good mouth chief requirement, 30 



Groom, 28, 29 



Ground, keeping horse on the, 157 



Haltering, Pratt's Method 

 OF, 86 



Halter, rope, 78 



Halter twitch, 108 



Haltering loose horse, 80 



Hamilton, 153 



Hands, good, 65 



Handle, difficult to, 223 



Hanging against the pole, 236 

 „ on the headstall, 251 



Handkerchief, picking up a, 268 



Hard pulling, 66 



Harness, breaking to, 212 

 , difficult to, 233 

 , faults in, 233 

 , lying down in, 240 

 , plunging when starting in, 



241 

 Head and neck, carrying the, 44 

 Head and tail, tying the, 197, 206 

 Head, chucking up the, 217 



„ , position of the, 66 

 Headstall, hanging on the, 25 1 

 Headstall twitch, 117, 118 



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