The Harness Horse 



understand the ins and outs of tandem-driving, you 

 can make any free horse into a leader. When 

 I have been short of horses on a journey I have 

 more than once bought ponies out of a Cabuli drove, 

 put them in harness, lunged them till they ceased 

 to kick at the traces, put them into the lead and 

 driven them a stage the same afternoon. A 

 willing horse, a light hand, and a ready whip 

 will take you anywhere with a tandem that wheels 

 can go. Thus tandem is a capital way of training 

 a young horse, and as it causes very little strain, 

 and can be made as easy as you like, you can use a 

 three-year-old colt and impress on his mind early 

 lessons of docility and handiness. 



Next to driving tandem a pair is the pleasantest, 

 and when well driven and newly put together 

 there is something most fascinating in the rhythm 

 of the eight hoofs. In a light four-wheel dog- 

 cart a pair of young ponies can be put together, 

 used for one's business or pleasure, and sold, and 

 the process begun over again. The fascination of 

 the pursuit lying in the making of the pairs, 

 without looking primarily to profit, yet I have 

 found in practice that in this way one adds greatly 

 to the interests of one's drives and diminishes the 

 cost. But in making young harness horses into 

 pairs it is desirable to have a trustworthy equine 

 tutor with which one can harness the youngsters 

 at first, and from whom they can learn manners 

 and the way to work. But, of course, in making 



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