CHAPTER VI. 



HOW TO BREAK AND TRAIN A HOBSE. 



L AXBRICAN VS. ENGLISH FOALS. U. AT WEANING TIME. III. THE FIRgT LBgSON.^» 



rV. TRAININQ. V. TRAINING TO WORK. VI. TRAINING TO BACK. VII. TRAINING 



TO SADDLE AND HARNESS. VIH. TO HANDLE A HORSE. IX. HOW TO HANDLE A. 



VICIOUS COLT. X. SADDLING AND HARNESSING. XI. HOW TO SUBDUE A VICIOUS 



HORSE. Xn. HOW TO TRAIN TO THE SADDLE, XIII. TRAINING TO TROT IN HA*. 



NESS. XIV. HOW TO TRAIN TO TROT IN LIGHT HARNESS. XV. HOW TO TRAIN FOR 



THE PLOW. XVI. TRAINING TO THE WAGON. XVII. HOW TO TRAIN A RACER. , 



ICnn. TRAINING A STALLION 



I. American vs. English Foals. 



It is a common remark among Englishmen visiting America that ouv 

 horses are more easily controlled and managed in the breaking in and 

 training than English horses, and hence they have been led into the error 

 of supposing that they were deficient in courage and spirit. Nothing 

 could be farther from the fact. The true reason is, the growing foals in 

 the United States are more the companions of the children of the farmer 

 than in England. They are not as a rule, beaten and abused, and thus 

 do not find their real powers of resistance as they do in England under 

 the handling of hirelinsfs of little intellio^ence, and almost no education. 

 In the United States the fondling of the colts and fillies commences 

 almost with birth. They are special pets of the boys of the family. On 

 the farm, and even on the road, the mares are often regularly worked 

 with the colts running at the feet, a very bad plan for the colts, acd 



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