30 TKATNING. -* 



In training, tlie use of a dumb jockey* will be 

 found most serviceable to get the head into proper 

 position, and to bend the neck. Two hours a-day in 

 this gear, while the horse is either loose in a box or 

 fastened to the pillar-reins if in a stall, will not at all 

 interfere with his regular training, exercise, or work, 

 and will materially aid the former result. 



I greatly advocate the use of the dumb jockey with- 

 out springs, even with formed horses, who, being daily 

 used to it, need no such adjuncts as bearing-reins, but 

 will arch their necks, work nicely on the bit, and ex- 

 hibit an altered show and style in action that is very 

 admirable in a gentleman's equipage. 



Should my reader be much interested in breaking-in 

 rough colts, I recommend him to consult ' Stonehenge,' 

 by J. H. Walsh, F.K.C.S., editor of the 'Field.' 



Training for Draught. ^Before the first trial in the 

 break-carriage, give your horse from half-an-hour to an 

 hour's quiet ringing in the harness, to which he should 

 have been previously made accustomed by wearing it 

 for a couple of hours the two or three preceding days. 

 The first start should be in a regular break, or strong 

 but inexpensive vehicle, and stout harness, with, also 

 saving-collar, knee-caps, and kicking-strap — no bearing- 

 rein. He should be led by ropes or reins (in single 

 harness on both sides of the head), and tried on a level, 

 or rather down than up a slight inclination. The place 

 selected should be one where there is plenty of unoccu- 

 pied roadway. 



Better begin in double harness, and let the break- 

 horse with which the driver is to start the carriage be 



* The old-fashioned pattern, with leather gear, is, after all, the 

 best, as proved by the most practical men of the day. 



