TAMING, TRAINING, AND MANAGEMENT 



OF THE COLT. 



N^ bringing this work before the pubhc, 

 I know perfectly well that it is an utter 

 impossibility to make a man a perfect 

 horseman, or to teach the art of hand- 

 ling horses in an efficient manner by 

 theory. At the time of writing this 

 book I have given two hundred classes in different 

 parts of England and Scotland, and always with 

 success, so far as the animals went; but I usualh' 

 found it more difficult to train a man perfecth^ in m}- 

 art than to take a vicious horse and tame and train it 

 to make it do my will. Any man, to be an efficient 

 horse trainer, must have first learned the art of keeping 

 his temper and governing himself, for a bad tempered 

 trainer will turn out a bad tempered and nervous colt ; 

 and a really vicious man will not take long to make a 

 really vicious horse. 



It is not always the fault of any particular system 

 of training colts whereby we get bad and worthless 

 horses, it is more frequently the result of an injudicious 

 mode of practising it, and a wanton ignorance of the 



