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some confirmation. Ride him regularly upon 

 the road, suiting the amount of work to his 

 strength and courage so as to train and prac- 

 tise without fatiguing him. Use nothing but 

 a plain snaffle and a whip the curb and spurs 

 are to be introduced hereafter. Require him 

 to execute no pace except a fast walk and a 

 moderate trot, but insist that in both he shall 

 always be fairly up to his bridle ; in other 

 words, keep him alive with the whip so that 

 he requires perpetual holding with the snaffle. 

 A very few weeks of this exercise will, if he 

 is naturally good tempered and has been judi- 

 ciously broken, make him a lively, free-going 

 roadster. 



In saying this, I of course take for granted 

 that your horse instinctively understands what 

 is meant by the use of the whip. This, how- 

 ever, is not always the case. A horse which 

 is struck with a whip by a man on foot will 

 naturally endeavour to escape a repetition of 

 the blow by moving away from the assailant. 

 But a horse which is struck by a man seated 

 on his back has no obvious means of escape 

 except by throwing his rider ; and this he will 

 very probably endeavour to do, unless he has 



