The Intelligence of the Horse 



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bered. It is this principle that is involved in the 

 short, rather severe methods of training. Repetition, 

 however, is extremely useful in all horse training and 

 is absolutely essential when training for special work, 

 as racers, coachers, saddlers and the like. 



Fig. 1. — Hackney colt, showing high knee and hock action. 



In training the horse there are three factors in- 

 fluencing the rapidity with which events may be 

 memorized and thus with which habits are formed. 

 First, with mature horses the power of memorizing 

 or making new associations decreases with increasing 

 age. Therefore we should begin with young ani- 



