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side, two buckles are stitched, serving to attach the reins either high up, 

 or even crossed over the withers, or low down, or sometimes both high 

 and low. What is called a dumb-jockey may be attached to the roller, bub 

 this is frequently dispensed with, though witli the elastic reins introduced 

 by Mr. Blackwell I think it may be made very useful. Lastly, to the 

 crupper long hanging straps are attached, so as to accustom the young 

 animal to the pressure of the coat or habit. Provided with this apparatus, 



MP.. RARKY'S IIALTEU OR LRIDLE FOR COLTS. 



and with a long leading-rein of webbing, the breaker is prepared to subdue 

 the wildest colt. 



The first thing to be done is to get a halter or head-stall on, which is 

 only to be effected either in a stable or similar enclosed place, or among a 

 herd of other horses, when the colt is so closely packed in that he cannot 

 move. Every one must have seen the Welsh and Irish drovers rush into 

 the middle of a herd, and seizing an unbroken colt round the neck, hold 

 him till a halter is slipped over his head. The same plan greatly facilitates 

 the haltering of any colt ; but a couple of steady horses are quite enough to 

 keep a colt steady in any building or small yard. The breaker arranges so 

 as to have one on each side, and then going up between them, he has the 



