TREATMENT FOR VICIOUS STALLIONS. 



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is necessary. Stand opposite the shoulder, four or five feet away, 

 and give a sharp pull, repeating slowly until he will come around 

 promptly. This lesson must be made sufficiently thorough to over- 

 come all inclination to resist, no matter how tried or excited. Five 

 or ten minutes' treatment, when properly done, should be sufficient 

 to break up the habit. 



Treatment for Very Vicious Stallions.. 



Vicious stallions require very careful management. In deter- 

 mining the treatment, a great deal depends upon the temperament 

 of the horse, and how greatly his resentment has been excited. A 

 horse that seems 

 the worst is not 

 always the hard- 

 est to break ; in 

 fact, if he has 

 never been fooled 

 with much, he 

 may be, in many 

 instances, the 

 very easiest to 

 manage ; and 

 when once sub- 

 dued, by the 

 methods of sub- 

 jection given 

 here, it will not 

 be difficult , t o 

 hold the charac- 

 ter good by care- 

 ful after-treat- 

 ment. 



If a stallion of 



moderately good disposition be partially broken or subdued, and 

 that for a number of times, it may be very difficult to afterward 

 make him reliably gentle. Or when once thoroughly subdued, if 

 he is whipped or managed in such a way as to again excite him to 

 resist, it would require the most thorough course of treatment to 

 produce the same degree of docility as before ; for by such success- 

 fuPresistance the horse is taught a degree of cunning and treachery 

 that it is next to impossible to break up. On this account it is of 



Fig. 384.— Method of Placing the Hand, and Bringing it Quickly 

 to the Head, in Approaching a Vicious Stallion. 



