CHAPTER VIII 



TRAINING FOR RIDING 



{Gontinued) 



THERE are always two ways — ^inducing 

 a horse to do a thing of his own 

 accord, and compeUing him to do it through 

 fear of punishment. After the first, you 

 have him regarding you as a friend.; after 

 the second, he holds you in fear, in fact as an 

 enemy. Under no matter what circum- 

 stances, was any good ever done to a horse by 

 punishing him so severely that the impression 

 left upon his mind is that the man who did it 

 was his enemy ! Good is done sometimes — 

 but not to the horse. Occasionally a horse 

 turns and kills a man who has brutally ill-used 

 him. The man does not look pretty after- 

 wards. 



The whole art of successful horse-education 

 and training, for whatever purpose, is the 

 careful thinking out of methods by which you 

 get the horse to himself elect to do the thing 

 you want him to do. You make him think, 



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