120 SCHOOL-TRAINING FOR HORSES. 



All horses should be taught to bear 

 the spur without flinching. This will 

 prove a great safe-guard to the rider, 

 as the horse will not bolt at the 

 prick of the rowel, and will be ren- 

 dered quick to obey the will of his 

 master. 



It is not necessary to use a sharp 

 spur upon a schooled horse, as his train- 

 ing will render him so quick and ready 

 that he will answer to the pressure of 

 the leg without waiting for the severer 

 form of the aid, and a blunt spur 

 will be all that is required should he 

 hang back a little at times. But it 

 is first necessary that he should sub- 

 mit to the application of the sharp 

 rowel without either bolting or show- 

 ing resentment. Horses of even the 



