1 6 Management and Treatment of the Horse. 



vicious horse of the present century, and he was 

 made so by the man who looked after him tickling 

 and pinching his flanks. So vicious was he, that 

 for the last 15 years of his life he never had the 

 bit out of his mouth, to which was attached a long 

 chain ; his mane and tail were never combed, and 

 no blacksmith could touch his feet, and when he 

 died, his hoofs had grown to nearly twelve inches 

 long. Mr. Xime Hunter, of Thorpe Arnold, near 

 Melton Mowbray, many years ago, owned a horse 

 called Jingle Pot; he was very vicious. Yet 

 both their stock turned out quiet and docile. It 

 is the most intelligent colt that becomes by mis- 

 management and bad treatment the vicious horse ; 

 hence the necessity of the utmost caution on the 

 part of owners of young stock to obtain intelli- 

 gent men to look after them. The training of 

 the colt is a work that requires great pains, care, 

 and patience ; therefore it should not be entrusted 

 to unskilful hands, which is too often the case. 

 Many valuable animals are totally spoiled by the 

 ignorance displayed by their trainers,^ who often 

 have no patience and as little judgment; there- 

 fore they expect the colt to do things which they 

 have not the sense to teach it, and then ill-use it 

 because it does not understand. Such men should 

 be placed in a foreign country among men whose 

 language they cannot understand to be their task- 

 masters, who should punish them every time they 

 make a mistake ; then they perhaps would have 

 more patience with the poor animal under their 

 care, and not expect it to do things until it has 

 been taught what it is expected to do. The care- 



