124 SCHOOL-TRAINING FOU HOKSES. 



greatly improves the action and move- 

 ments of the horse. After the horse 

 has passed about the trainer several 

 times at the length of the rein he 

 should be induced to come up to the 

 man to be caressed and encouraged, 

 and then made to pass about in the 

 opposite direction, to be again brought 

 up to the man. A few lessons given 

 in this way will give the most timid 

 horse a confidence in his trainer that 

 can be produced by no other means 

 with which I am acquainted, and to 

 obtain the confidence of the horse is 

 the first and longest step in his sub- 

 jugation. 



As the rules I have laid down for 

 obtaining control over the horse should 

 prepare the reader for every emergency. 



