CHAPTER XI 

 Vice Outside the Stable 



Kicking in Harness — Setting and Lying Down in Harness 

 — Shying — Rigs and Troublesome ^^lares — Star Gazing 

 — Rearing — Backing — Troublesome to Catch. 



Having dealt at some length with the vices which 

 horses are apt to cultivate in the confinement of the 

 stable, I now proceed to give some account of those 

 other and even more dangerous vices which so often 

 detract from the usefulness of the horse. 



Kicking in Harness.— Kicking in harness is 

 a vice of the worst kind, and once a horse has fairly 

 got the trick of it, it is difficult ever afterwards to 

 say for certain at what moment he may be looked 



