DRIVING THE COLT TO THE STABLE. 7 



themselves out for a quiet stroll, and that the 

 movements of the colt before them have no- 

 thing in the world to do with them. By this 

 means a colt can be driven to the place selected 

 to halter him in with little or no trouble ; but 

 let there be any fuss or unusual noise, and the 

 animal will then, through his instinct, guess 

 that something is going to happen to him, and 

 will show you a clean pair of heels. 



I will now suppose the colt has been driven 

 into a stable with the old horse, and will also 

 go so far as to suppose that there is a loose box 

 in the stable. Not more than two men should 

 be in the stable now, one of them to hold the 

 old horse, and watch his opportunity of leading 

 him out, and the other to insinuate himself by 

 degrees between the colt and the old horse, and 

 stop the colt rushing out when he finds the 

 horse is leaving him. My reason for now re- 

 moving the old horse is, that whether in halter- 

 ing a colt, or during any other process of 

 breaking-in, you should always dispense with 

 anything that is calculated to draw the colt's 



