CHAPTER I 



BASIC PRINCIPLES OF HANDLING 

 AND TRAINING 



THE horses and ponies which come into 

 the hands of the trainer are of all 

 sorts, ages, heights, shapes and sizes, and 

 their temperaments and intelligence and 

 manners are of every possible diversity ; as 

 are also their previous experiences of handling 

 — good, bad, and indifferent — on the part of 

 man. This book has been written, so that any 

 intelligent person — man or woman — with no 

 previous knowledge of the methods of educat- 

 ing a horse, or of training and taming bad 

 horses, can undertake to train their own young 

 stock, or to improve the manners of badly 

 broken animals, with the certainty of success. 



As stated in the Foreword, there are many 

 animals in this country two or three years old, 

 which, through the departure of men to the 

 Front, have never been handled at all, and 

 therefore the typical case has been taken of 

 how to break in a particularly wild and 



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