On Horsemanship

ll-grown horse; secondly, how to escape as much as possible the risk of injuring your purchase by mishandling; and lastly, h

ng harshness of speech and act, so you will best avoid enraging a spirited horse by not annoying him. Thus, from the first instant, in the act of mounting him, you should take pains to minimise the annoyance; and once on his back you should sit quiet for longer than the ordinary time, and so urge him forward by the gentlest signs possible; next, beginning at

an the frequent turn which tends to calm a horse.129 A quiet pace sustained for a long time has a caressing,130 soothing effect, the reverse of exciting. If any one proposes by a series of fast and oft-repeated gallops to produce a sense of weariness in the horse, and so to ta

d on the same principle, you should absolutely abstain from setting him to race against

f a rough bit be inserted at all, it must be made to rese

specially when mounted on a spirited horse; and also to touch him as little as po

th the "chirrup," the horse could be taught to rouse himself at the "chirrup" and to calm himself at the "cluck" sound. On this principle, at the sound of the trumpet or the shout of battle the rider should avoid coming up to his charger in a state of excitement, or, indeed, bri

do everything the opposite to what we advise as appropriat