RIDING AND TRAINING. 6 I 



animal should not be permitted to move except at 

 the command of its master. If it take a step in any 

 direction without having received orders, it should 

 be quietly made to resume its position. It should 

 be made to keep the pace and action desired by the 

 trainer, and in every possible way the horse should 

 be made to feel that it must recognise a superior 

 will. While it is wise to avoid a battle with a horse, 

 the man should bear in mind that it is through the 

 habit of obedience that he controls the animal, and 

 he should, therefore, in laying the foundations of its 

 education, endeavour to demand nothing that he is 

 not prepared to enforce. But, above all things, the 

 man should avoid challenging the horse to a contest, 

 and then yielding to the angry animal, for, while a 

 horse may forget that it has upon occasion been 

 guilty of misconduct without receiving correction, 

 it will always remember a successful resistance 

 of authority. If the horse shows a determination 

 not to accede to the repeated demands of its trainer, 

 it must be made to obey, or the man's rule is in 

 jeopardy. But this will not be a case for severe 

 punishment ; nothing but patience will avail the 

 trainer. The horse should be made to remain in 

 place. Every voluntary movement should be 

 checked, unless it be the one required by the man, 

 when the horse should be rewarded as though it 



