100 BREAKING AND TRAINING 



matter to teach a horse to walk right. A horse that 

 has been badly broken, when asked to walk, will often 

 break into a trot. Again, some horses, when going 

 at the walk, will put far too much exertion into it, 

 thus wasting their energy. 



There are horses that know how to walk and do walk, 

 and others which don't know how to walk, hut try to walk. 



With regard to animals intended for double harness, 

 there are certain facts worth remembering. A horse 

 that is required to run in double harness should have 

 his paces formed alongside his fellow, seeing that the 

 real beauty of a high class pair of victoria or landau 

 horses, lies not only in the conformation of the 

 animals, but to an almost equal degree in the harmony 

 of their action and equality of their paces and step. 



One of the commonest faults an observer can see, 

 say in Hyde Park, during the season, is the marked 

 difference in the step of the animals composing pairs, 

 though in other respects the two may be well matched. 

 It is useless, of course, to anticipate perfect harmony 

 of step unless the horses have equality of action ; in 

 other words, " hft " to an equal degree. 



In order that a pair of horses may acquire such 

 equality of action, I recommend the following course 



