Hints on Colt-Breaking. 1 1 1 



must get him in your ring, and begin 

 very humbly. Give him plenty of a 

 low jump before you give hun a higher. 

 It is only fear of his incapacity to sur- 

 mount an obstacle that makes a horse 

 afraid to try. Any horse would rather 

 follow his friends in a run than remain 

 behind, so that we see it must be a 

 powerful motive that will cause him to 

 remain behind. That motive is fear^ 

 the mainspring of nearly all the pecu- 

 liarities that v:e call ^' vice." It may be 

 that the horse has fevered feet, or hot 

 tendons, and cannot bear the idea of 

 rising in the air to come down with all 

 his weight and yours added. Of course, 

 a horse that has any disease of a sort 

 to make jumping a pain, either before 



