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back under the arm, catch the hitching part of the halter 

 np near the head, and Pun around with him, at the same 

 time pressing the pole against the quarters, and hold until 

 submitted to. When successful on one side, go to the op- 

 posite side and repeat. Successful in this, pole him while 

 standing, then untie and do the same. A remarkable fea- 

 ture will now be that when he once gives up, he will be 

 likely to act as indifferent to the poling as if he never cared 

 anything about it. It will be advisable, however, to put 

 on the War Bridle — the most powerful form — and pull him 

 right and left a few times, which greatly intensifies the im- 

 pression of power already made. 



The Third Method does not seem to work well on these 

 cases because they will not resist under it ; it works well 

 only on those cases which resist it hard for a short time, 

 then give up unconditionally ; upon such it will be found 

 very effective. While, as before explained, "throwing," 

 or the First Method, does not produce impression sufficient 

 to do much good unless the horse will try to resist it by 

 getting up. The Breaking Rig would work well upon most 

 of these cases. Among this class there is occasionally a 

 horse that will seem to fight through all the treatment 

 when warmed up, either sulking when forced, or fighting 

 back. A point in the management of such cases, which I 

 have practiced with great success, but which must be done 

 with great care, is to carry the treatment so far that when 

 cool he will be somewhat sore, when he will be found not 

 much inclined to resist. 



Now the point of success is to give him a short, sharp 

 les§on, that will compel submission before he becomes 

 warmed up ; as his warming up would defeat the work by 

 destroying sensibility and stimulating resistance. Usually 

 turning around a few times will be all that is necessary to 

 force submission. A horse that at first would be likely to 



