124 THE HORSE: ITS KEEP AND MANAGEMENT. 



behind it. Where a great mistake is often made, is in putting 

 a load in the cart too soon after the young horse is broken 

 in, as when the colt comes to find the load does not move, 

 which is often the case, the animal begins to jib, and can 

 never be trusted again. When this is the case, at six years 

 old they are not worth so much by from ;io to 30 as 

 they would have been had they been treated properly. 



Perhaps there is no other place in England where so 

 many horses are noticed to jib, as at the foot of London 

 Bridge, though it is not steep, there are seldom two hours 

 in the day but what some horse turns his work up and 

 has to be helped over the bridge by other horses. This 

 jibbing is usually caused through proper care not being 

 taken in breaking in. Carelessness on the part of the 

 groom or driver sometimes will cause horses to jib, but it 

 is usually through the breaking in ; although injudicious 

 treatment afterwards will sometimes spoil the temper, even 

 if they are seven years old. 



