Hints on Colt-Breaking, 85 



cleverly by putting up a low bar at f, 

 and as he knows already that there is 

 one at B, he soon gets very smart 

 about it. 



This process does not admit of a horse 

 becoming a rusher ; it makes him crafty 

 and thoughtful, because he knows from 

 experience that you may change the 

 timber-jump any moment. The others 

 he soon despises. 



You can have a hurdle, laced with 

 boughs, etc., tied to the bars at B, to 

 represent a hedge, but always with the 

 bars behind it, so that he will come down 

 if he attempts any liberties. 



Next change the wooden hurdle for an 

 iron one, and you will have a tolerably 

 safe horse at the end of the lesson. He 



