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as to render them dissatisfied when shut up in boxes which 
do not communicate with adjoining ones ; on the other hand, 
some horses are restless if not entirely secluded from their 
species.” 
We have always been of opinion that horses were used under 
great disadvantages, irksomely to themselves, besides awk 
wardly and annoying to their riders and drivers, who had not 
been educated, or, as it is called, “broke in,” for the purpose for 
which they were intended. Compared with the number who 
receive no “ breaking ” at all-r-or none, save what little they 
get, to quiet them to domesticity, from the hands of the 
country “ colt breaker,” how few are they who have once 
had a schoolmaster’s whip over their heads. And yet, mount 
an animal of this numberless class, and afterwards throw the 
leg over a really broke or managed horse, and the difference 
is likely to prove as great as— speaking not so very wildly — 
between riding a horse and riding a cow. True it is, with 
persons who do not from experience understand this, riding is 
riding, so long as it be on horseback ; but a true and expert 
horseman would as soon ride a donkey as an awkward, no- 
mouthed, no-paced horse. Hear what “Cecil” says, and 
thereby receive a “ wrinkle” or two : — 
“ Mankind are strongly marked by education, and every 
individual carries the stamp of the place of his instruction 
upon him through life. The bearing of an Etonian is readily 
distinguished from the comparatively rude manners of the 
youth who receives his instruction at an ordinary school. 
A similar distinction is discernible in the education of the 
horse : one that has received the finishing polish of tuition 
from an experienced and accomplished rider, is an infinitely 
more agreeable servant and companion than a rough animal 
from the hands of a provincial colt-breaker, or the usually 
unsophisticated guidance of a hard-riding farmer. The 
trainer can seldom expect to have colts placed under his care, 
which do not require some tutelage under his hands ; if 
they have been sufficiently broken as to ride quietly, that is all 
he can expect. To follow other horses up gallops, and 
perform the requisite accomplishments during the successive 
courses of preparation, will, in most instances, come under 
the supervision of the trainer ; and, indeed, on many occa- 
sions he will have to direct the entire breaking or tuition of 
