Pulling on the Haltee. 69 



I have walked colts into the stable this way, in less 

 than a minute, after men had worked at them half an 

 hour trying to pull them. If you cannot walk with 

 him at once in this way, turn him about and walk him 

 around hi every direction, until you can get him up to 

 the door without pulling at him. Then let him stand 

 a few minutes, keeping his head in the right direction 

 with the halter, and he will walk in, in less than ten 

 minutes. Never attempt to pull the colt into the stable ; 

 that would make him think at once that it was a dan- 

 gerous place, and if he was not afraid of it before, he 

 would be then. Besides we don't want him to know 

 anything about pulling on the halter. Colts are often 

 hurt, and sometimes killed, by trying to force them 

 into the stable ; and those who attempt to do it in that 

 way, go into an up-hill business, when a plain, smooth 

 road is before them. 



If you want to hitch your colt, put him in a tolera- 

 bly wide stall, which should not be too long, and should 

 be connected by a bar or something of that kiml to 

 the partition behind it ; so that after the colt is in, he 

 cannot get far enough back to take a straight back- 

 ward pull on the halter ; then by hitching him in the 

 centre of the stall, it would be impossible for him to 

 pull on the halter, the partition behind preventing him 

 from going back, and the halter in the centre checking 

 him every time he turns to the right or left. In a stall 

 of this kind you can break every horse to stand hitched 

 by a light strap, any where, without his knowing any- 

 thing about pulling. But if you have broke your 

 horse to lead, and have learned him to use the halter, 

 (which you should always do before you hitch him to 



