GENERAL PRINCIPLES. 



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On this account, controlling physical resistance becomes but 

 a temporary bridge across a gulf to enable building the real 

 structure. So subjection is but a means for reaching the 

 brain to remove the exciting cause of the resistance. If 

 stimulated by fear, then to show there is no cause for fear ; 

 if through real viciousness, then to remove the resentment 

 by kind treatment ; when the horse's reason can be molded 

 and instructed in any channel desired. 



The next difficulty is the 

 different degrees of resist- 



FIG. 18. Vicious. 



FIG. 19. Treacherous. 



ance to be met with in different 

 horses. A dozen horses may break 

 the halter or kick. One may be broken of the habit 

 quite easily, another may resist ten times as long, while 

 the third may even require hours of treatment, the differ- 

 ence being in the pecularity of character and temperament. 

 The better to aid in explaining these conditions, I present 

 a large number of representative heads, with some refer-j 

 ences to aid in determining the treatment to be employed, 

 and which should be studied carefully. An important con- 

 dition also is to guard against possible accidents, because 

 this would defeat the very end for which the treatment is, 

 intended. For more particular reference, see part follow- 

 ing "Medicine" in chapter on "Subjection." 



