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put through two small rings, fastened with straps, low 

 down on each side of the surcingle, then direct to the 

 mouth. Now you commence another step in its 

 training — 



DRIVING, AND Teaching it to Turn, Stop, 

 AND Back to its Bit. 



The old style of doing this, is to walk behind it all 

 the time, so that you walk mile for mile with the colt; 

 and if the colt is headstrong, and wishes to get away, I 

 do not think there is a man that could hold him. Now 

 in my system for driving, you are nearly in the centre 

 of the ring, and parallel with your colt. You have the 

 leverage of the outside rein the full length of the colt's 

 body, right from its mouth to its quarters, and the 

 inside rein is the short lever, as it goes only from the 

 mouth to the ring in surcingle, and you then have 

 perfect command over him. You drive the colt, feel i?ig 

 its mouth round the ring a few times, say to the 

 left hand, then let your near rein slack, and pull smartly 

 on the off one, a sivinging pull, not 2. jerky pull ; at the 

 same time just tJiroiv your whip on the outside 

 shoulder, so as to give him an inclination to turn 

 smartly, and not to fight the bit. After the colt has 

 gone a few times round the ring to the right hand, let the 

 off rein slack, and give a swinging pull on the near 

 one, at the same time throw the whip on the outside, 



