Horse and man by Phillipps Charles Spencer March

Author:Phillipps, Charles Spencer March
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horses
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green
Published: 1869-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

his neck either way so as to look full to his rear, and champs the bit the moment he feels it turned in his mouth. Then mount him, divide the reins, collect him at the halt, and try to bend him in the same manner by a steady feeling first of one rein and then of the other.

When your horse bends sideways quite freely at the pressure of the inward rein upon his bit, endeavour to make him do so by the pressure of the outward rein upon his neck. First get him perfectly collected at the halt with the reins divided, and then endeavour to keep him so by feeling his mouth with the left (or right) hand so that you can just see his nostril on tha': side, while you slightly relax the right (or left) rein. When you succeed in this, raise the right (or left) .hand and carry it across you until the right (or left) rein presses against the side of the horse's neck. And when he bends sideways in this manner as freely as in the former, take the reins in one hand and try to make him bend sideways by simply carrying your bridle hand first to one side and then to the other.

When you find, as with tact and patience

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