46 TRAINING OF HORSES. 
and lazy, and you need not wonder if her colt is equally 
so. The ready application of this rule to all habits of 
the mare will be at once perceived, and needs no further 
argument. There are exceptions to all these general. 
rules, the colt occasionally giving no evidence of his 
lineage, or extending it back one or more generations; 
but it has proven itself sufficiently clear to our observa- 
tion to warrant us in setting it forth as a fact, that much 
depends, not only upon the constitution and habits gen- 
erally of the progenitors of the colt, but particularly 
upon the habits of the mare while with foal. We there- 
fore advise precaution in advance, as a preventive of . 
trouble with your animal in after-years. 
We calculate that a colt, educated under our system, 
as thus far set forth, has been trained out of these bred 
habits, if he ever possessed them. What we now intend 
is to give rules for training him out of such as have not 
already been eradicated by proper training, as well as 
to break him of such as he may have acquired through 
mismanagement. 
There is much danger accompanying the act: of at- 
tempting to break bad colts, unless you can proceed: 
upon safe rules. Those which we are about to give we 
consider certain to not only effect the object, but also to 
insure safety of life or limb both to the operator and the. 
animal. If, however, you vary from them, and set up 
plans for yourself, the responsibility is yours. 
In carrying out our system in regard to the breaking 
of the colt (as well as the maturer horse) of bad habits, - 
