44 TRAINING OF HORSES. 
and with a quick spring you throw your right leg over 
the crouper, and are mounted. 
he THE HABITS OF THE COLT: 
The habits of the colt may be classified under two 
heads : ; 
First.—Habits acquired through improper training, or 
bad and careless management after training. A colt 
which has been correctly trained, if watched carefully 
and promptly checked at each indication of bad habits, 
will ina short time become settled and fixed in the right 
way, and will never, except by extraordinary or willful 
means, become a bad horse. <A colt, however, which is 
improperly trained is more than likely to acquire bad 
habits, and it is to the cure of these which the rules we 
give will call your attention. ; 
Second.—Habits which are bred. The class of habits 
to which we allude under this head have for a number. 
of years occupied our thoughtful attention, and though 
we have never seen or heard them set forth as import- 
ant, yet in our opinion a volume might be written upon 
the subject, replete with facts and suggestions, every 
one of which would be of immense value to the breeders 
of horses. As this work, however, is devoted more ex- 
clusively to the training of the animal, and fitting him 
for use, we shall content ourselves by briefly giving our 
reasons for our theory, and making a few pertinent sug- 
gestions upon the subject. Close reasoning, and analogy ; 
founded upon observation, have taught us that, as the 
colt is quite apt to inherit the éradés of the dam or sire, 
