Illustrated Horse Breaking. M. Horace Hayes
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M. Horace Hayes
Illustrated Horse Breaking
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066199227
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THEORY OF HORSE-BREAKING.
CHAPTER II. PRINCIPLES OF MOUTHING.
CHAPTER IV. RENDERING HORSES DOCILE.
CHAPTER V. GIVING HORSES GOOD MOUTHS.
CHAPTER VI. TEACHING HORSES TO JUMP.
CHAPTER VII. MOUNTING HORSES FOR THE FIRST TIME.
CHAPTER VIII. BREAKING HORSES FOR LADIES’ RIDING.
CHAPTER IX. BREAKING HORSES TO HARNESS.
CHAPTER XI. NERVOUSNESS AND IMPATIENCE OF CONTROL.
CHAPTER XII. JIBBING IN SADDLE.
CHAPTER XIV. VICES IN HARNESS.
CHAPTER XVI. RIDING AND DRIVING THE NEWLY-BROKEN HORSE.
CHAPTER XVIII. TEACHING THE HORSE TRICKS.
CHAPTER XIX. TESTING A HORSE’S MANNERS, MOUTH, AND TEMPER.
CHAPTER XX. ON IMPROVISED GEAR.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
| Fig. | Page | |
| 1. | —Horse bending his neck to the rein without swinging round his hind-quarters at the same time, in answer to the pull | 58 |
| 2. | —Shews horse having answered the pull of off rein as he should, and consequently coming straight at his fence | 61 |
| 3. | —The proper length for a standing martingale | 70 |
| 4. | —First loop in forming a halter | 79 |
| 5. | —Second step in forming a rope halter | 79 |
| 6. | —Rope-halter on pole, ready for use | 82 |
| 7. | —Halting vicious horse with rope-halter on pole | 83 |
| 8. | —Pratt’s method of haltering | 87 |
| 9. | —Noosing a fore-leg | 90 |
| 10. | —Pulling up a fore-leg when noosed | 91 |
| 11. | —Picking up a fore-leg | 95 |
| 12. | —How to hold up a fore-leg | 97 |
| 13. | —Rarey’s leg-strap | 100 |
| 14. | —Tying up fore-leg with stirrup leather | 101 |
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