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slow, heavy horses for fast driving or riding, and so, also, 

 the greatest and most unpardonable want of judgment and 

 prudence is shown by gentlemen in the selection of horses 

 of the most unreliable character, for a purpose requiring the 

 greatest docility and perfection of character. 



The most lamentable and common causes of accident and 

 loss, result from the want of exercising proper descrimina- 

 tion and judgment in the selection of horses more especially 

 adapted by nature for their use. 



Thus, if a horse is not or cannot be made perfectly reli- 

 able for carriage or family use, or for any purpose involving 

 much danger to life and property, he should be discarded 

 or changed for one that is safe and reliable. But as these 

 naturally excitable, hardy, plucky horses are really the best 

 and most valuable horses when properly educated, the great 

 value of my treatment can be appreciated, as I conclusively 

 prove. I can even reform and make perfectly gentle the 

 wildest and most vicious horses that can be found ; and that 

 it must be the fault of the reader if he cannot be equally 

 successful. I see and handle horses almost daily, that are 

 used for carriage driving, so unreliable and dangerous in 

 character, that it would be true economy to shoot or give 

 them away, rather than hazard accident by their use. 



NOT BEING AFRAID OF HORSES. 



This is a common expression, and is most always 

 prompted by fool hardy ignorance. A wild mustang or 

 mule would strike or kick without regard to being firm and 

 courageous in manner or not. A determined horse that 

 has learned to kick and run away, can do so in defiance of 

 any control that can be exerted upon the mouth by the 

 strongest of men with reins. If there is danger of a horse 

 kicking or resisting control from excessive fear or other 

 cause of resistance, being recklessly venturesome, without 

 having taken adequate precautionary measures to prevent or 

 overcome such viciousness, is only incurring risk; it is the 

 part of true success to guard against or break up, before 

 taking any doubtful chances which can be easily done by 

 my treatment. It is assuming too much for any man to 

 attempt driving and controlling a wild, reckless, kicking, 

 runaway horse, by the control of reins and bit, as a strong, 



