336 FAULTS OF MOUTH. 



Horses whose vice comes under the first heading are 

 naturally " free goers," and are willing to proceed in any 

 direction, though they resent being kept in the same spot. 

 As a rule, they exhibit this " defence " only under occasions 

 of excitement. They are extremely liable to be con- 

 verted into jibbers by bad management. Rearing jibbers, 

 as I may call those horses which practise the second 

 form of rearing, are often light-mouthed horses ; though 

 I have met many hard pullers among the number. When 

 a horse which is " heavy in hand " rears, we may conclude 

 that he commenced his tricks as a jibber, and finding, 

 probably by accident, that an attempt at rearing discom- 

 fited his would-be master, he cultivated the art of standing 

 on his hind legs from that time. I might mention a third 

 form of rearer who deliberately tries to crush his rider by 

 throwing himself backwards on him. He appears to be 

 vindictive as well as rebellious. There are, I think, ex- 

 tremely few rearers of this kind ; as in all my experience 

 of bad equine characters in various parts of the world, I 

 can remember only one rearer of this kind. I am inclined 

 to think that such animals are very seldom met with, and 

 that the majority of horses which have the reputation of 

 throwing themselves back on their riders would do so 

 only under provocation from the man or woman on their 

 back. 



In breaking a rearer, if we find that his fault arises from 

 his being " behind the bridle," and probably from being at 

 the same time too impetuous, we may try to put him straight 

 by teaching him the turn on the forehand, both on foot 

 (see page 208) and mounted (see page 229), and by turning 



