34 Hints on Colt-Breaking. 



tlie risk of the animal doing himself 

 an injury is too great to allow you to 

 chance it. Therefore, I would let him 

 come down again, and when he does so, 

 again say '' Back ! " with a strong jerk 

 as before. He may go up a dozen times, 

 but each time will be with less vigour, 

 and he is not at all likely to fall of his 

 own accord ; it is only very vicious horses 

 that ever lose their balance or throw 

 themselves back, and we all know that 

 that kind never manage to do themselves 

 any harm. The very fact that a horse 

 has sufficient brains to resist man, at 

 once proves he has sense enough to look 

 after himself. 



Headers will notice that mustangs are 

 the most difficult of all horses to break ; 



