CHAPTER XVII 



EDUCATION AND CARE OF ROADSTERS AND 

 OTHER LIGHT HORSES 



NEARLY all the ailments of horses are due not so 

 much to bad breeding as to faulty training, ignorant, 

 brutal driving, overwork, carelessness in feeding and 

 watering, and thoughtlessness and ignorance with 

 regard to the kind and amount of work which should 

 be demanded of a horse under given circumstances. 

 This being the case, the subject of driving, feeding 

 and management is set forth in this and the follow- 

 ing chapter with painstaking minuteness. 



EDUCATION 



The colt, it will be remembered, was taught, while 

 yet with its dam, to obey simple commands and to 

 acquire confidence in its master and in the myriad of 

 frightful objects of the new world in which it first 

 found itself a timid, ignorant stranger. It has had a 

 happy, unrestrained life so far, and has learned much 

 of men and things during its three years of growing, 

 joyous, bounding life. Its freedom has given it power 

 and courage, both of which we shall discover when 

 an attempt is made to get dominion over it. Without 

 this bounding energy and courage, it would be a dis- 

 appointment simply an ass. 



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