48 THE MIND OF THE HORSE 



tlie ideas of tlie jnovemeiits we wish to teach him 

 to do and calculated to induce him to do them 

 in the manner stated in the chapter How the horse 

 learns and how he must he taught. In that chapter 

 it is also explained how he is induced not to per- 

 form the movements he would like to make but 

 which we do not desire him to make. The means 

 to be employed for acting upon his mind are those 

 stated in the paragraph Thinc/s exercising an injliieme 

 upon the horse, and all the aids and punishments. 



Individual qualities and character. 



Santapaulina (seventeenth century) Avas the first 

 to distinguisli and classifv the various characters 

 of tlie iiorsc and to observe that in training horses 

 tlic.y must ))e treated differently according to their 

 different dispositions. He established the fact of the 

 combined occurrence of ilie following qualities and 

 of their opposites: strong — light — good heart — 

 sensitive: weaJt; — heavy — had heart — dull. By 

 sensitive he means a just degree both of feehng 



