78 Hints on Colt-Breaking. 



top, six feet wide at the base, with a 

 ditch on each side two feet wide. The 

 whole thus measures ten feet from one 

 side to the other of the ditches. 



At D we have a water-jump cut out, 

 lined roughly with cement, and filled 

 with water, a foot deep and six feet 

 wide. 



You now take your stand in the middle 

 of the ring, with a whip, a sieve, and a 

 tin of oats, and drive the colt round, 

 from the gateway to the left. A very 

 little driving will get him over the water, 

 but the bank and double ditch generally 

 puzzle him a good deal at first. If he 

 seems afraid of these, take a rope, tied 

 to his halter, in your hand, and jump on 

 to the bank yourself, and then off, when 



