Illustrated Horse Breaking

Illustrated Horse Breaking

I offer this work to the favourable consideration of the public, as an attempt to describe a reasoned-out system of horse-breaking, which I have found, by practical experience, to be easy of execution, rapid in its effects, and requiring the possession of no exceptional strength, activity, pluck, or horsemanship by the operator, who, to become expert in it, will, as a rule, need only practice. It is in accordance with our English and Irish ideas on the subject; for it aims at teaching the horse manners, and giving him a snaffle-bridle mouth; so that he will go up to the bridle, and bend himself in thorough obedience to rein and leg.{xii} As a personal explanation, I may mention that after having spent many years racing and training in India, during which time I practised the ordinary methods of breaking, I returned to England, where I learned the use of the standing martingale and long driving reins, as applied specially to jumpers, from Mr. John Hubert Moore, who was the cleverest maker of steeplechasers Ireland ever knew. He, I may remark, obtained these methods, in his youth, from an old Irish breaker, named Fallon, who was born more than a century ago. I had also valuable instruction in horse taming from Professor Sample. Having read an account of MM. Raabe and Lunels hippo-lasso, as a means of control for veterinary operations, I conceived, with happy results, the idea of utilising this ingenious contrivance in breaking. I also learned, about the same time, how to halter a loose horse without running any danger of being kicked, or bitten.{xiii} ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 57116
Author: Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace)
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Brown, J. H. Oswald