48 THE MIND OF THE HORSE 



the ideas of the movements we wish to teach him 

 to do and calculated to induce him to do them 

 in the manner stated in the chapter How the horse 

 learns and how he must he taught. In that chapter 

 it is also explained how he is induced not to per- 

 form the movements he would like to make bnt 

 which we do not desire him to make. The means 

 to be employed for acting npon his mind are those 

 stated in the paragraph Thiuf/s exercisinff an inflKence 

 upon the horse, and all the aids and punishments. 



Individual qualities and character. 



Santapaulina (seventeenth century) was the tirst 

 to distinguish and classify the various characters 

 of tlie horse and to observe that in training horses 

 they must be treated differently according to their 

 different dispositions. He established the fact of tlie 

 combined occnrrence of the following qualities and 

 of their opposites: sfronr/ — lif/ht — f/ood heart — 

 sensitive: weaJc — heavy — had heart — dull. By 

 sensitive he means a jnst dcgTce both of feeling 



