The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses
THE
MODERN ART
OF
TAMING WILD HORSES,
By J. S. RAREY,
THE HORSE TAMER.
Reprinted from the American Edition.
LONDON:
G. ROUTLEDGE & CO. FARRINGDON STREET.
1858.
Contents (not listed in original)
- Introduction
- The Three Fundamental Principles of my Theory, founded on the leading Characteristics of the Horse
- How to succeed in getting the Colt from Pasture
- How to Stable a Colt without Trouble
- Time to Reflect
- The Kind of Halter
- Remarks on the Horse
- Experiment with the Robe
- Suggestions on the Habit of Smelling
- Prevailing Opinion of Horsemen
- Powel's System of Approaching the Colt
- Remarks on Powel's Treatment How to Govern Horses of any Kind
- How to proceed if your Horse is of a stubborn Disposition
- How to Halter and Lead a Colt
- How to Lead a Colt by the Side of a Broken Horse
- How to Lead a Colt into the Stable and Hitch him without having him pull on the Halter
- The Kind of Bit, and how to accustom a Horse to it
- How to Saddle a Colt
- How to Mount the Colt
- How to Ride the Colt
- The proper Way to Bit a Colt
- How to Drive a Horse that is very Wild and has any Vicious Habits
- On Balking
- To Break a Horse to Harness
- How to Hitch a Horse in a Sulky
- How to make a Horse Lie Down
- How to make a Horse Follow you
- How to make a Horse Stand without Holding
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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