148 BREAKING AND TRAINING 



Your whole experiment is an object lesson, and 

 serves its purpose in showing him how he can be 

 conquered. Every time the animal jibs the above 

 lesson can be repeated. After you have tutored him 

 sufficiently' in this way you should put him into 

 harness and drive him, making him circle, turn back, 

 and so on. 



Shying. — Shying sometimes becomes an exceed- 

 ingly dangerous habit, and one, moreover, which 

 may render an animal in other respects useful, 

 practically worthless. 



In many cases the habit has its origin in nervous- 

 ness. Frequently, however, it is due to some defect 

 in the animal's vision. 



When you find a horse tainted with the habit it is 

 advisable at once to have his eyes carefully examined 

 by an expert in order to make sure that the visual 

 organs are free from any radical defect. 



In these pages, of course, the writer is dealing 

 with horses not from a medical aspect but from the 

 trainer's point of view. Therefore, it is only in 

 so far as shying is traceable to nervousness that it 

 has in the present instance an}' interest for him. 



