2o8 BREAKING ON FOOT. 



the art of training horses to safely " negotiate " the difficult 

 country met with in Ireland, tells me that he has found 

 this method of great use for teaching horses to collect 

 themselves when coming up to the big banks and ditches 

 which are to be seen in the counties of Kildare, Tipperary 

 and Cork. After the horse has been thoroughly taught the 

 long-rein work according to the system I have described, 

 Colonel Wardrop's plan might be useful for giving him 

 a few practical lessons over the obstacles in question. 



All I know respecting the antiquity of long-rein driving 

 on foot is that Fallon, an Irish breaker who was an old 

 man at the time, taught, more than sixty years ago, this 

 method of mouthing to Mr. John Hubert Moore, the 

 famous trainer of steeplechase horses. 



Teaching a horse to turn on his forehand. — Having 

 taught the horse by means of the long reins to understand 

 and obey the aids for turning on his centre, we may 

 proceed to make him equally proficient in those for the 

 turn on the forehand, which is a particularly useful means 

 for teaching him to go up to his bridle, by transferring 

 weight from his hind-quarters to his forehand, and for 

 giving increased mobility to the hind-quarters — of the 

 rearer for instance. The turn on the forehand is the 

 normal way in which a horse changes his direction when at 

 liberty in an open space. 



The turn on the forehand is made on the off fore as a 

 pivot (moving or fixed), when the hind-quarters move 

 from right to left (in the direction taken by the hands of 

 a watch). This I shall call the turn on the Jorehand to the 



