10 HINTS ON HORSEMANSHIP. 



principle, any groom, or moderately good rider, could break 

 any colt, or ride any restive horse. 



There is a common error, both in theory and practice, 

 with regard to the restive horse. He is very apt to rear side- 

 ways against the nearest wall or paling. It is the common 

 error to suppose that he does so with the view of rubbing his 

 rider off. Do not give him credit for intellect sufficient to 

 generate such a scheme. It is, that when there, the common 

 error is to pull his head from the wall. This brings the rider's 

 knee in contact with it ; consequently all farther chastisement 

 ceases. For were the rider to make his horse plunge, his 

 knee would be crushed against the wall. The horse, finding 

 this, probably thinks that it is the very thing desired, and 

 remains there ; at least he will always again fly to a wall for 

 shelter. Instead of from the wall, pull his head towards 

 it, so as to place his eye, instead of your knee, against it ; 

 continue to use the spur, and he will never go near a 

 wall again. 



