REINING-BACK. 



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dealt with very ably in Barroil's admirable book, UArt 

 Eqnestre. 



By practising the horse at the rein-back we teach him 

 to obey the pressure of the reins with his head and neck^ 



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Fig. 8. — Reining-back. 



and with his hind-quarters at the same time ; in fact, to 

 obey it with both ends of his body, and not with the front 

 end only. This work has also a strong moral effect on 

 the animal in teaching him discipline. It is, as we might 



