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Train the horse to walk fast. — There is no gait so valu- 

 able or so much appreciated and so practically useful in 

 a horse as a fast, square walk. It is not difficult to train 

 the average horse to w^alk fast, providing the proper 

 methods are employed in the early training. From the 

 very beginning keep the horse walking up to his limit. 

 We should never allow him to mope along at this time, 

 or the habit will become so strongly fixed that it will 

 be difficult to overcome. During the entire training 



FIG. 169.— GUY LINE 



process, therefore, urge him to his limit and he will get 

 into the habit of walking fast. 



Training the wild horse. — ^The training of stubborn, re- 

 fractory and wild horses calls for more strenuous methods 

 than have hitherto been suggested. Perhaps the greater 

 number of such animals owe their faults to inequalities 

 of temper. It is, therefore, of much importance that the 

 temperaments be studied carefully. Horses may be 

 divided into four general classes according to their tern- 



