146 FEAR— ITS EFFECTS. 



the bank, to be delivered to me on fulfillment ofthis condition. As 

 this was one of the most interesting and marked cases I had found 

 in all my experience, and as it represents a large class of nervous, 

 unmanageable colts, I will include the full details of the treatment 

 used :— 



I first arranged with the owner to have him taken to the Titus- 

 ville trotting park, eight miles distant, and there I subjected him 

 carefully to.Second Method, which was exactly adapted to his tem- 

 perament. I touched his quarters very lightly at first, which he re- 

 sisted by kicking, snorting, and jumping in the most desperate. man- 

 ner. But I persisted in the effort, repeatedly reversing both ways 



Fig. 184— Wild Pete, as he Appeared Next Day after being Subdued. 



until he was compelled to submit to it, but not sufficiently to hold 

 gentle. This so toned him down that I was then able to subject 

 him without difficulty to First Method, which, as he resisted with 

 great courage, was consequently very effective in his case, but not 

 by any means sufficient to make him submit to be harnessed or put 

 in shafts. I subjected him again to Second Method, and now suc;- 

 ceeded in making him entirely gentle to submit to having a pole 

 brought against his flanks, etc. 



The next step was to drive him, which I knew I could not safely 

 do. To accomplish this, I improvised the pole rig for shafts, re- 

 ferred to in chapter on Colt Training. As soon as he found himself 

 between the poles and was allowed to move, he seemed for a few 

 moments to exert all the energy of despair in trying to get away. 

 But expecting this, I was prepared to meet it and hold him, though 

 his resistance at this stage was very determined. ? 



