66 THE MIND OF THE HORSE 



man of great ability in in continuous danger on a 

 bad natured liorse. 



The second good quality is his willingness to 

 move, his advancing or moving in response to the 

 slightest aids. Locomotion is almost everything in 

 the horse, as in this lies his serviceableness, and 

 motion is necessary in order to put him in a good 

 position and collect him so that lie may be me- 

 chanically controlled. 



Idleness is the negation of all this and of the 

 essential quality of the horse. It is at times due 

 to weakness and to insutficient food. If due to this 

 cause the horse on first starting lets us see that 

 he would be willing to go, although he grows 

 rapidly fatigued. 



It is also necessary that he should duh' feel 

 aids and punishments, as these are the only means 

 we have of acting upon him. I say duly because 

 if he feels them too mucli, that is if their action 

 upon him is in morbid excess they cannot be used 

 as thev would make him run a^yav, and if lie feels 

 them too little thev are of no avail. Great timi- 



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dity and fear are a grave incouA enience and a hin- 



