rarey's method op taming horses. 36T' 



You should lead him about in the stall some time before you 

 take him out, opening the door so that he can see out, leaduig 

 him up to it and back again, and past it. See that there is 

 nothing ont he outside to make him jump when you take him 

 out, and as you go out with him, try to make him go very slowly, 

 catching hold of the halter close to the jaw with your left hand, 

 while the right is resting on the top of the neck, holding to his 

 mane. After you are out with him a little while, you can lead 

 him about as you please. 



Don't let any second person come up to you when you first 

 take him out; a stranger taking hold of the halter would 

 frighten him, and make him run. There should not even be 

 any one standing near him, to attract his attention or scare 

 him. If you are alone, and manage him rightly, it will not 

 require any more force to lead or hold him than it would to 

 manage a broken horse. 



How TO Tie up a Colt. — If you want to tie up your colt, put 

 him in a tolerably wide stall, which should not be too long, and 

 should be connected by a bar or something of that kind to the 

 partition behind it ; so that, after the colt is in he cannot go far 

 enough back to take a straight, backward pull on the halter; 

 then by tying him in the centre of the stall, it would be impos- 

 sible for him to pull on the halter, the partition behind prevent- 

 ing him from going back, and the halter in the centre checking 

 him every time he turns to the right or left. In a stall of thig 

 kind you can break any horse to stand tied with a light strap, / 

 anywhere, without his ever knowing anything about pulling. 

 For if you have broken your horse to lead, and have taught 

 him the use of the halter (which you should always do before 

 you hitch him to anything), you can hitch him iu any kind of 



