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Index 



cart, 118; order of feeding, 125; 

 over-reaching, 143 ; physicked, 

 121; plan for training, 112; rest 

 two days a month, 116 ; scraped, 



121 ; scraping, 126 ; shoeing, 



122 ; shoeing to improve action, 

 139, 146 ; small training track, 

 111; speed-making lessons, 124; 

 striking, 145; study colt, 116; 

 study individual, 121 ; sugar-of- 

 lead-laudanum lotion, 126 ; 

 sweated, 121 ; training, 108 ; 

 training to u-e track, 113 ; train- 

 ing vehicle, 118; training while 

 young, 110; toe-weight, 122; 

 two- and three-year-old, 123 ; 

 watering, 112, 125; young ex- 

 ercised twice daily, 120. 



Troublesome to catch, 285. 



Trusting horses, 44. 



Tug, hame, 336. 



Twitch, 191, 192, 195, 197; and 

 bridle, 191, 192, 195 ; bridle, 200 ; 

 halter, 198 ; headstall, 199 ; lip, 

 197; noose, 197; rearing, 200. 



Tying to post, 45. 



Unsteady under whip and spur, 273. 

 U. S. Army bit, 320. 

 Useful lessons only, 33. 

 Uses of the bit, 56. 



Value, depends on training, 2 ; 

 of early training, 42. 



Vehicle, backing, 80 ; familiarizing 

 with, 77. 



Vices, 246, 286; backing in stall, 

 297 ; balking, 249 ; biting, 292 

 breaking, 265; bucking, 276 

 causes, 247 ; cribbing, 269 

 difficult to back, 263 ; difficult 

 to bridle, 291 ; difficult to crup- 

 per, 292 ; difficult to groom, 288 ; 

 difficult to harness, 290 ; difficult 

 to shoe, 300 ; halter-pulling, 269 ; 

 jibbing, 252 ; kicking, 254 ; kick- 

 ing in stable, 295 ; outdoor, 246 ; 



outdoor, the cause, 249 ; outdoor 

 overcome, 249 ; plunging, 264 ; 

 prancing, 265 ; pulling-halter, 269; 

 rearing, 264, 276 ; refusing ad- 

 mission to stall, 286 ; running 

 away, 260 ; running back, 262 ; 

 shoeing, 300 ; shying, 257 ; stable, 

 286 ; striking, 295 ; study causes, 

 247; switching tail, 265; tail 

 over line, 268 ; wind-sucking, 300. 



Vicious horses, 186, 241 ; causes, 

 186; "Cruiser," 241; handling, 

 242; Galvayne method, 242; 

 objects of fear, 243 ; overcome, 

 244 ; Rarey method, 242 ; sub- 

 duing, 241 ; temper, 187 ; train- 

 ing, 186. 



Victor bit, 320. 



Visionj 49 ; limited, 9. 



Vividness of impression, 4. 



Voice, and punishment, 18 ; and 

 reward, 17. 



Wagon, skeleton, 119; advantages, 

 119. 



Walk, 159 ; fast training, 91 ; run- 

 ning, 164 ; Spanish, 181 ; training, 

 168. 



Walk, trot and canter horse, 167. 



Walking horse, 167. 



War bridle, 191 ; modified, 192. 



Watering, 356 ; the trotter, 125. 



Weaving, 314. 



Weight in shoeing, 140. 



Whims, 246, 278, 286 ; blanket 

 tearing, 307 ; boring, 281 ; chew- 

 ing tie-strap, 312 ; crowding, 282 ; 

 drenching, 315 ; eating bedding, 

 312 ; gnashing teeth, 280 ; gorg- 

 ing grain, 315 ; grasping bit, 279 ; 

 lugging, 281 ; lying down cow- 

 fashion, 311; lying down in 

 harness, 312 ; outdoor, 246 ; paw- 

 ing, 309; pulling away, 282; 

 refusing to stand, 284 ; rolling, 

 306; rubbing harness, 311; rub- 

 bing tail, 310 ; shaking head, 280 ; 



