60 ROAD, PARK, AND SCHOOL 



CHAPTER // DISCIPLINE AND EXERCISE. 



THE secret of success in the management of horses 

 lies in a kindly enforced discipline. Through 

 gentleness and firmness, the most irritable animal 

 may be made perfectly quiet and obedient. 



It is true that some of the horses that are publicly 

 exhibited have been trained by harsh and violent 

 means, but those horses render a sulky or timorous 

 compliance only when within reach of the lash ; 

 and the gay and ready air with which the half- 

 savage Bronchos, recently seen in England, went 

 through their extraordinary performances, proves 

 the advantages of the mild rule under which they 

 were drilled. 



It is important that there should be no breaches 

 of discipline upon the part of the young horse ; for 

 with care its education may be carried on without 

 permitting the idea of resisting the trainer's will to 

 enter the animal's mind. From the time the horse 

 is taken in hand, it should be the object of the 

 trainer to impress the horse with his power. The 



