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ciently thorough to compel unconditional submission to 

 the restraint of the bit. (For full details see "Running 

 Away.") 



CONFIRMED KICKERS. 



Confirmed kickers are usually exceptionally bad cases, 

 and may be classed under three heads, as follows : Nervous, 

 Excitable Kickers, 

 Sulky Kickers, and 

 Switching Kickers. 

 Some of the very worst 

 horses of this kind I 

 have ever broken, and 

 which caused me the 

 most trouble, were cases 

 which, at first, did not 

 seem very bad, but 

 grew worse as they 

 warmed up. Some will 



t . , , FIG. 145. Norman Horse. Naturally gentle. 



show the most wonder- 

 ful pluck, striving to kick in defiance of all that can be done, 

 and require not only the most careful but thorough course 

 of treatment to be broken. While others, though kicking 

 with extreme viciousness, and showing a great deal of ex- 

 citement, may become entirely gentle by a short lesson of 

 subjective treatment. So that the act of kicking must not 

 alone influence the treatment so much as the peculiarity of 

 disposition. 



If the horse is large boned, with strong, 'dense texture 

 of body, not inclined to put on flesh, gray or sorrel, eyes 

 large, rather dark, showing much white, and with a sort of 

 sullen expression, no matter what' the character of the kick- 

 ing, he will usually prove a hard fighter. Horses of this 

 character usually will not bear any mistakes or fooling with. 



