86 Hints on Colt-Breaking. 



is almost sure to rap it once, but never 

 twice. If steeplechase horses were taught 

 in this way, we should not see quite so 

 much falling ; but they are allowed to 

 " chance " so many weak fences when 

 they are under instruction, that they 

 always imagine most of them can be 

 run through. An iron hurdle will utterly 

 prevent that notion ever taking hold of 

 their minds. 



It is as well to ride the horse round 

 the ring with only a low jump up, 

 merely that he may have the feeling of 

 beiug ridden at an obstacle. He will 

 never refuse in his own ring, and will 

 thus be very unlikely to do so when 

 you get him out with the hounds, because 

 horses are such creatures of habit, that 



