20 BREAKING AND TRAINING 



there was no doubt but that this httle trick would 

 have resulted in accordance with the animal's inten- 

 tions. 



If you train up a foal, however, on anything like the 

 correct principles of breaking you may be pretty well 

 sure that such acts of devilment as the above will be 

 few and far between. More than a hundred years 

 ago the Duke of Newcastle wisely declared that there 

 were no " bad " horses. By this he meant that every 

 horse should be serviceable in such emplo37ments as 

 nature might have fitted and capacitated him for. 

 In other words, it is the breaker or owner that we 

 must blame if a horse fails to be serviceable, owing 

 to work being given him of another sort than that 

 for which he was intended by nature. This is a fact 

 which ought never to be lost sight of by the owners of 

 horses. 



During the breaking process, we must, of course, 

 submit differently tempered animals to different 

 methods of treatment. There are plenty of sulky 

 horses, for instance, that are not half bad, after they 

 have once become reconciled to the discipline imposed 

 on them at this period. To take an example : There 

 are some horses which will refuse to move when being 



