98 HOW TO EDUCATE HORSES. 



RIDING BRIDLE FOR KICKERS. 



I will now describe a valuable riding bridle for 

 kickers. Take a piece of rope twelve feet long. 

 Double or rather treble it, making a three-ply rope. 

 Now take the rope, make a half-hitch, and tie it 

 at each end. Then take the rope and pass it through a 

 loop to outside and same with the other. These three 

 ropes, at the top of this bridle, pull forward as a brow- 

 band, and the two ropes that are across each other 

 go into the horse's mouth. This bridle can be put 

 over or under your ordinary bridle, and it is impossi- 

 ble for any horse to run away with it on. For riding 

 purposes, reverse the bridle right round, placing three 

 cords in his mouth instead of two. 



THE PASSIVE TREATMENT. 



If you should have a horse so vicious to shoe that, 

 after trying the methods I have already mentioned, 

 you have to give up, I will lay down one here which, 

 although I do not personally approve of it, is some- 

 times effective when everything else fails. Take a cord 

 twenty feet long with a loop in one end, made station- 

 ary. Pass this over the upper jaw, under the upper 

 lip; now wind around his head and through his mouth 

 until you wind up the whole twenty feet of this rope, 

 every time drawing it tighter. When this bridle is 

 on the horse you can curry him and do anything else 

 you desire. Never leave it on, however, over thirty 

 minutes, as it stops the circulation. You can loosen 

 it for five minutes and then tighten it up again. I 

 have trained some very bad balkers with the use of 

 this rope and will explain to you how. Hitch up the 

 horse and ask him to go. If he refuses to pull, take 

 him right out and remove the bridle. Put on this 



