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INDEX, 



Muscles of the neck, 44, 45 

 Mutton fist, 67 



Neck, gentling, 81, 88 

 Neck muscles, 44, 45 

 Neck, scratching the, 81 

 Nervousness, 3, 18, 226 

 Newmarket, 65, 179 

 Night, kicking at, 252 

 „ , pawing at, 256 

 " No ! ", 266 

 Noosing fore-leg, 93 

 Nose-bands, 76 



Obeying the rein, 41 

 Obeying without reins, 265 

 Obey, making horse, 37 

 Object of horse-breaking, i 

 Ordinary method of breaking, 35 

 Outward leg, 56 



Pad, driving, 166 



Pallin, Mr., 224, 256 



Pawing at night, 256 



Pawing back the litter, 256 



Peat, General, 146 



Permanency of breaking, 31, 35 



Personal influence, 28 



Petting horses, 10 



Plunging when starting in harness, 



241 

 Pole, gentling with the, 81 88,93 



„ , hanging against the, 236 



„ , pulhng away from the, 241 

 Polo, savaging at, 245 



„ , shying off the ball at, 220 

 PossibiUty of overcoming any vice, 

 16 



Pratt, Mr., 113, 151, 218 

 Pratt's method of haltering, 86 



„ twitch, 113 

 Principle of rendering horses 



docile, 38 

 Pulling, 66, 218 

 Pulling away from the pole, 241 



„ successfully, 42 

 Punishment, 24 



Quick breaking, 33 

 Quiet to ride, 37 



Raabe and Lunel, 119 



Racing snaffle, thin, 69 



Ranks, refusing to quit the, 229 



Rarey, 15, 17 



Rareyfying, 24 



Rarey's leg strap, 99 



Rawlins, Colonel, 93 



Rearing, 60, 219 



Reasoning, 8, 17 



Refusing, 231 



Rein-bearers, 171 



Rein, getting tail over the, 235 



Reining back, 63 



Rein, obeying the, 41 



Reins, 171 



Reins, pull of the, 50 



Rideable and driveable, 22 



Riding newly-broken horse, 247 



River, 13 



Rockwell, Mr., 151, 267 



Rope-halter, 78 



Rope-twitch, 113 



„ „ , advantages of, 112 



Rough and ready method, 37 

 Rubbing the tail, 256 



