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CHAPTER VIIL DIFFICULT HORSES. 



AFTER the reader has schooled a horse he will 

 not require any advice regarding the prevention 

 of disorderly actions ; for the rider who has been 

 able to make his horse perform the various school 

 movements will understand how to acquire perfect 

 control over the animal. 



But it is well to give some general rules for the 

 guidance of the inexperienced pupil who finds him- 

 self mounted upon a difficult horse, which has not 

 been properly trained. As the man improves in 

 skill, and the horse advances in its education, these 

 methods may be superseded by others less crude and 

 more in accordance with the system of training laid 

 down in the second part of this work, but which 

 would be hardly expedient for the untrained man 

 and horse. 



Irritable Horses. Among my acquaintances I 

 number some excellent riders, and, while any of 

 them would willingly try to render a vicious horse 

 manageable, I do not know one who professes to 

 enjoy riding a dangerous animal. I have observed 



