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The kicking horse can be taught to be gentle in harness in a few 

 hours' time. 



THE EUREKA BRIDLE. 



While a pupil of Prof. O. R. Gleason, who has great reputa- 

 tion in this country and abroad as a horse trainer, we were taught 

 to use the Eureka bridle in leading'and handling the colt. It is 

 the most powerful means of learning the colt to lead. There is 

 one objection to the use of it, however, in the training of the 

 innocent colt, for persons are apt to be inconsiderate in its use. 

 Instead of using it with utmost mildness, a little resistance on 

 the part of the colt is made an excuse to use it in the most severe 

 manner, until the colt either submits unconditionally or becomes 

 so desperate with pain as to be entirely reckless. 



HOW TO MAKE THE EUREKA BRIDLE. 



Take a sash cord or a small hemp rope about three-eighths of 

 an inch. Let it be about fifteen feet long; tie one end into a 

 hard knot just as you would to prevent its raveling; tie another 

 knot about ten inches or a little more from the one on the end, 

 but before you draw it tight put the knot on the end through. 

 You have now a loop that will not slip, made on the principle of 

 the hitching rope tied around the neck of the horse so as not to 

 tighten upon the neck by pulling. This loop should be just 

 large enough to slip over the under jaw; put this loop over the 

 lower jaw while standing on the near side, take the cord in the 

 left hand, and bring over the neck by passing the left hand 

 under the neck to the opposite side towards the mane; bring the 

 right hiind over the neck and take the cord from the left and 

 pass back to the loop, and put through from the top side until 

 the ])art over the neck is drawn like a check rein; now take hold 

 of the end of the rein, and you have a means of power in it that 

 makes the strongest horse almost a plaything in your hands. In 

 using the Eureka bridle as a means of subduing the colt, it is 

 best to use the knee strap, tampering him on three legs. As soon 

 as he submits cleverly to this step, instead of fastening up the 



