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a man to be a successful trainer, to have a love for a 

 horse, and to be able to keep his temper and to have 

 plenty of courage. The trainer should never forget that 

 he has to deal with an animal which cannot be broken 

 by brutal force, but can be with patience, care and love. 

 The great difficulty for an employed riding teacher in 

 any of the schools in this country, that means if he is a 

 man that understands his business, and one who has the 

 ambition and will to instruct his pupils in the proper way, 

 is that he does not find the material, simply because the 

 horses are not thoroughly broken in the campaign school 

 at first. It is a great mistake of many men who own 

 horses to think that they can have them broken to the 

 saddle in a month or two, as it is impossible to train a 

 horse as one should be trained in a shorter time than 

 three or four months without injury to the horse, because 

 if any one should attempt to train a horse in a shorter 

 time, it would not only injure the horse, but no good 

 results would be obtained from it. If you want to train a 

 horse in the proper way, you should take into consider- 

 ation his age and his build, and never require more in 

 one lesson than the horse can do with ease and without 

 fatiguing him and thereby provoking his resistance. The 

 training always commences by bringing the horse well in 

 balance, for this reason the horse, for the first few les- 

 sons has to be ridden only at a walk and natural trot. 

 After this, if the horse commences to gain confidence in 

 his rider, you commence to make the turning first at a 



