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PART III. 



RESTIVENESS : ITS PREVENTION AND CURE. 



CHAPTER I. 



HOW TO RENDER HORSES OBEDIENT. 



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Disobedience or restiveness not to be confounded with vice — 

 A horse is stronger than a man ; therefore nothing is to be 

 done by mere brute force— Usual cause of insubordination 

 is injudicious treatment— Character of the horse— English 

 method of training or handling young horses— Continental 

 or school methods— Advantages or disadvantages of these 

 two; their description; how they may be best made appli- 

 cable to the prevention and cure of restiveness 199-220 



CHAPTER II. 



GENERAL RULES FOR THE TREATMENT OF RESTIVENESS. 



Avoid opportunities of conflict — Ascertain how restiveness was 

 caused, and when first shown, the temper and general dis- 

 position of the animal ; also its condition must be taken 

 into account — If practicable, the handling of restive horses 

 should be undertaken in an enclosed place, a riding-school, 

 or the like — What may be done when nothing of this kind 

 is available — The first great object is to get a horse to 

 go somehow, then afterward in obedience and in a cer- 

 tain form — Generally speaking, restive horses should be 

 treated as if they had never been handled at all ; that is to 

 say, they should be re-trained from beginning to end — The 

 position generally assumed by restive horses — How to get 

 them out of this — " Unfbcing" a horse from the spot — Treat- 

 ment of a horse that backs — How to use the spurs and the 

 whip 221-234 



