SUBJECTION. 



EDUCATING horses successfully, implies showing and teach- 

 ing what is required to be done in such a plain, practical 

 manner, that the horse is made to understand clearly what 

 to do. This implies showing by actions, when he does 

 right or wrong, restraining or reproving for resistance or 

 doing wrong, and caressing and rewarding for doing right, 

 repeating with patience until the animal can understand the 

 meaning and object of his restraint, that he is not to be 

 hurt and only required to do what he is commanded. This 

 is an absolutely necessary condition, as horses do not 

 understand articulated language, and cannot understand 

 what to do unless shown. Hence, we caress and reward 

 by giving something to eat of which the animal is fond, 

 learning him to associate kindness and freedom from pain, 

 by yielding obedient to demands made upon him. But it 

 is seen all horses are not gentle enough to be approached 

 and handled to enable doing this. That a man has not 

 strength enough to control or restrain a wild or vicious 

 horse with any degree of safety or certainty. To make 

 such so gentle and submissive to control, that they can be 

 safely and easily handled and educated, constitutes the 

 science of subjection. 



EXCITEMENT NOT ADMISSIBLE. 



There is one law in the subjection of horses requiring 

 special attention, and that is, that the more excitement 

 caused in forcing obedience, the greater and more persis- 

 tent must be the resistance. The object being now to fix 

 upon the mind such an impression of power as to make the 

 animal passive to control; at the same time not only 

 intensifying the impression by such treatment as will cause 

 the most pain, in exact proportion to the resistance made, 

 but appealing to the reason and better part of the nature as 

 directly and forcibly by acts of kindness ; but if in doing 

 this the passions are excited, proportionate resistance must 

 result, which may, in the more plucky peculiarities of 



