ii8 BREAKING AND TRAINING 



Other animals, in the same way, must be treated 

 according to their various dispositions. A hot 

 tempered horse, for instance, requires patience until 

 he settles down, and a " plunger " demands that 

 special attention shall be paid to the strength of his 

 longeing gear, because if he once succeeds in his 

 attempts to free himself from it, he will have learned 

 a bad lesson, and your training will have to start 

 practically from the beginning again. 



So much as regards the temper of the horse. I have 

 also mentioned action as one of the things 

 you must make careful note of during longeing opera- 

 tions. Good action, and a good manner of going, 

 are virtues that must be steadily kept in view 

 and insisted upon at the present stage. With this 

 object you must carefully keep him at true paces, viz., 

 walking, or a regular trot. Until he has attained 

 something as near perfection as he can go, when pro- 

 ceeding at the trot, you must abstain from longeing 

 him at the gallop. 



Of the whip and its uses I have already spoken. 

 I take another opportunity, however, of mentioning 

 the fact that some colts, even of high breeding, do not 

 go any faster for the touch of the whip at their first 



