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has been very extensive. Advertising as a specialty that 

 I would make any headstrong, unmanageable stallion that 

 could not be led or controlled by even two or three men at 

 once, so manageable in ten minutes that I could stand ten 

 feet away and call him to me away from a mare or other 

 horses, of course there was great interest to see whether I 

 could do so apparently difficult a feat ; and almost every 

 week or two an especially vicious stallion of this character 

 would be reported for treatment, but he invariably proved a 

 good subject. 



There is no class of horses that submit more readily to 

 treatment when taken in time, but they are the hardest to re- 

 form when the treatment is not right, or when, by the in- 

 efficiency of the owner or groom, they are afterward al- 

 lowed successful resistance. On this account I have thought 

 it advisable to give special instructions for the management 

 of these cases. 



Treatment for Headstrong Stallions. 



If a colt is simply unbroken and impulsive — perhaps 

 nipping a little — he can be easily made gentle by subject- 

 ing him lightly to the Second Method and following with 

 the War Bridle. Sometimes a horse of this character is 

 perfectly manageable until led near other horses, when he 

 will try to pull away. I will refer to two or three such 

 cases. While at Pennington, N. J., a horse that pulled away 

 so badly he could not be taken into the streets at all if 

 other horses were in sight, was reported for treatment. He 

 was subjected lightly to the Second Method, and then 

 brought under thorough control by the War Bridle, when 

 he was led home as manageable as any horse. 



At a point in Northern New York, a five-year-old horse 



