244 ON THE PACES, AND 



I have already given divers hints on this part 

 of the fubjecl:, and once more repeat my ad- 

 vice of teaching the colt a good canter. If it 

 fhould be held proper to learn him to leap the 

 bar, the utmofl care mufl be taken that he 

 be not fuffered to do it with a heavy weight, 

 which may, in an inftant, let down his tender 

 finews. It by no means injures a colt, of fize 

 and bone, to put a collar upon him, provided 

 the draft be light and eafy ; for inftance, plow- 

 ing light fands ; his knowing how to draw, may 

 be of after ufe and profit. 



The utmoft care mould be ufed to teach a 

 colt his paces diftinElly. You will obferve a 

 number of Horfes, trained and ridden bv little 

 farmers and countrymen, which confufe and 

 jumble the paces one into the other, muffling 

 between walk and trot, and trot and gallop, 

 till they acquire a kind of racking pace, from 

 which it is no eafy tafk to reclaim them : or 

 they will, perhaps, do one pace only. If the 

 colt be unfavourably made forward, and it ap- 

 pear from the mal-conformation of his neck, 

 and the ill-fetting on of his head, that he can 

 never have a handfome carriage, double care 

 muft be taken to give him a well-tempered 

 mouth, the only thing which can poMibly ren- 

 der a horfe, of this unfortunate defcription, to- 

 lerable. 



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