INDEX. 



;79 



Mounted breaking. 217 



Mounting, Australian method of, 222 



horse for fii'st time, 218 



Mouth, 54, 60, 64, 83 



, hardness of, 81 



Mouthing, theory of, 64 

 Mules, 14, 18, 321 



Neck muscles, 77 



5 stiffness of, 81 



Nerves, i 



, overstimulation of, 38 



Nervousness, 27-29 



— and vice, distinction between, 



28 

 Nervous system, i 

 Newmarket, 199 

 "No!" 366 

 Noose twitch, 136, 180 



which will not run, 132 



Noosing fore leg, 118 

 Nose-bands, 98, loi 

 Nymphomania, 21, 179 



Obedience, necessity of, 50, 62, 69, 



326 

 Obstinacy, 30 



Off fore, cantering with, 246 

 Offett, Denton, 175 

 Orders, making horse understand our, 



39 



Ourang-outang, 13 

 Outside car, 278, 

 Over-reaching, 264 



Pacers to trot, teaching, 342 



Pad, driving, 187 



Pain (see also punishment), 43, 46 



PalHn, Mr,, 347 



Park hack, 316, 320 



Fas d'ecole, 28 7 



Passage, the, 295, 301, 315 



Passage, le, 288 



Pawing at night, 359 



• back the litter, 360 



Peat, General, 160 

 Permanency in breaking, 61 

 Personal influence, 59 

 Petting horse, 50 

 Phonograph, 3 

 Piafifer, 288, 311 



Piaffer ballofe, 311 

 Pigeon, tooth-billed, 4 

 Pillars, the, loi, 207 

 Pirouette ordmaire, 295 



• renversee, 293 



Plaiting mane of racehorses, 12 

 Plank, see-sawing on, 374 

 Pluck, 26 



, spoiling, 51 



Plunging in harness, 344 



Pomts (^ the Horse, 75, 94, 200, 241, 



246, 271, 272 

 Pole, hanging against, 344 



, pulling away from, 344 



Polka, dancing the, 310, 373 

 Polo ponies, 99, 319, 339, 353 

 , Mr. E. D. Miller's book on 



320 

 Ponies, hill, 5, 14 

 Pony mare, 18 

 Prancing, 340 



Pratt, Mr., 115, 132, 166, 214 

 Probasco, Mr., 366 

 Pulling, 324 

 Punishment, 30, 42 

 Pushing man out of ring, 373 



Quick breaking methods, 8, 53 



Raabe and Lunel, 143 



Racecourses, 30, 58, 92, 313, 339 



Race-horses, 12, 42, 44, 74, 199, 312 



Railway lines, 90 



Ranks, refusing to leave, 37 



Rapid methods of breaking, 8, 53 



Rarey, 34, 53, 56, 124, 160, 174, I75 



Rareyfying, 52, 61, 174 



Rassembler, 86 



Rawlins, Colonel, 117 



Rearing, 75, 84, 335, 34i, 373 



Reason, 9, 12 



" Refusing," 70, 256, 339 



Rein-bearers, 189 



Rein, getting tail over, 362 



"Reining," loi 



back, 92, 200, 232, 315, 341 



Reins, 65, 187 



, bending to the, 84 



, elastic, 103 



, jerking the, 45 



, long, 91, 183 



