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they had perceived that a melancholy horse Avas 

 also inclined to anger. Horses of different disposi- 

 tion require correspondingly varying treatment in 

 training. 



The qualities of bodily structure i. e. lightness 

 or heaviness, may he seen on inspecting the horse 

 at rest. But all the other (|ualities and especially 

 the mental ones, require some time to determine, 

 and the horse must also be observed when ridden. 

 The character of some of them requires a greater 

 length of time to be understood. 



Generally horses are more or less timid and 

 good and but rarely bad. An excess of nervous 

 excita])ility, wliich always keeps him in an excited 

 or convulsive condition resulting in a constant en- 

 deavour to break away renders it impossible to master 

 the horse and makes him dangerous and therefore 

 unsuited to the purpose of riding. Some of these 

 nervous horses may be useful wlien em^jloyed alone 

 and not in company with other horses by whom 

 they are excited to run and break away. Others 

 grow excited and break aAvay only if made to gallop 

 and should never be put to the gallop. Excessive 



