32 Hints 07t Colt-Breakmg, 



I am always trying to follow out in 

 my own mind what a horse thinks about 

 things, and why he acts in the peculiar 

 way he sometimes does ; but I am unable 

 to account for this : — A horse, thoroughly 

 mouthed, as above, to turn right or left, 

 and to stop, will yet, on occasion, run 

 away with you, if he wishes to do so, 

 under very ordinary excitement, such as 

 galloping with other horses in the wake 

 of hounds ; but when he has been taught 

 the next point, namely, to hack quickly 

 and well, he never will. There must 

 be some hazy idea in his stupid head that 

 the bit and bridle, in the hands of a man, 

 can actually make him go the very op- 

 posite way to that which he would like, 

 and this has a different effect on his 



