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distinctly traced to the same baneful source. A 

 horse should always be allowed to walk up hill and 

 down hill when they are unusually steep, and if this 

 method is followed it will be no unkindness to ask 

 him to push on at a good pace where the road is 

 level. In this humane manner more ground will 

 be covered with much more satisfactory results. The 

 horse will not become fatigued, because he is driven 

 in a reasonable way ; whereas, if he is driven " up 

 hill and down dale," as the saying goes, he will soon 

 become " bottomed " and useless for anything in the 

 nature of rapid work. ' His durability and courage 

 may be seriously impaired, and when a colt is once 

 thoroughly tired out it is doubtful if he is ever the 

 same again. His constitution, stamina, and spirit 

 seem to lapse, and his whole temperament undergoes 

 a radical change for the worse. To obviate any such 

 deterioration in the temperament of colts they should 

 not be hurried when ascending and descending steep 

 banks. 



HOW TO CORRECT A HORSE. 



In checking a horse for a mistake he has com- 

 mitted, it should always be done at the moment the 

 mistake occurs, and then he can reasonably be ex- 

 pected to understand what the punishment means. 

 For instance, when a horse attempts to throw his 

 rider, the latter should find out, so to speak, if he 

 is in earnest in his endeavours, because a fairly 

 good horseman can easily know by the appearance 



