FIRST-HAND BITS OF STABLE LORE 



deformed, and that only feats possible to him are 

 attempted. 



You are greatly to blame, as a breeder or trainer, 

 if you do not teach your pupils to walk fast, and 

 to move actively at all paces ; you are equally 

 culpable, as an owner and consumer, if you do not 

 improve your steed's abilities in this direction to 

 the best of his powers. Remember that this pace 

 is, to the average horse, the only one susceptible of 

 improvement, and yet the gait upon which we 

 rarely attempt to work any betterment. Of course 

 the trotter or the race horse will gain increased 

 speed at their fastest paces through teaching, but 

 the average horse has his abilities at the trot and 

 gallop very accurately measured out to him at 

 birth, while his walk is what his trainer chooses 

 to make it. No horse is so regularly overdriven 

 and abused as the slow and dawdling walker, 

 none so appreciated as the free and active mover 

 at this gait. Your saddle or harness horse may 

 be greatly helped if you will but persistently try 

 to educate him. 



Punishment must enter into the education of a 

 horse, and usually the quarrel which compels it 

 brews without a helping hand from you. No 

 animal is safe until he has been conquered in a 



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