CHAPTEE III. 



SPECIAL FOKMS OF KESTIVENESS. 



IN the preceding chapter the general method of treating 

 restiveness has been sketched in outline ; what is there 

 put forward will be found applicable to nearly all cases, 

 and also suffice for the cure of most forms of dis- 

 obedience. There are, however, some others which, in 

 addition, require special methods of treatment, espe- 

 cially when they have become inveterate ; and these 

 are bolting and running away, bucking or plunging, 

 rearing, and kicking. 



Bolting. The first step to be taken is to ascertain 

 why the horse bolts. A nervous and excitable tempera- 

 ment is sometimes the cause, and the only remedy will 

 be quiet and judicious treatment. Much more fre- 

 quently, however, bolting is resorted to by horses that 

 have some physical defect or peculiarity of conforma- 

 tion, as a means of avoiding what gives them great 

 pain ; in fact, it is frequently rather an effort of despair 

 than anything else, and an evidence that something has 

 been demanded of the animal that was beyond its 

 strength. 



Eig. 7 shows the heads and necks of two runaway 

 horses ; in the one case the animal's nose is poked straight 

 out ; in the other, the chin comes back so as nearly to 



