SCHOOL - TRAINING 



FOR HOESES. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE EQUILIBRIUM. 



It is useless to attempt to school a 

 horse until he has been taught to carry 

 himself under his rider in equilibrium. 

 For> no matter how perfectly balanced 

 the horse may be naturally, the con- 

 ditions of affairs are changed when we 

 put a bit in his mouth to hamper his 

 voluntary movements, and place upon 

 his back the weight of a man and his 



trappings ; and the horse must be care- 



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