This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... ' may seem rather a strange one. Yet it is true; for, unlike the dog, every horse has to be conquered before it can be brought wholly under the dominion of man. This result can be attained in more than one way; but, whatever may be the means, the primary object is to.make the horse believe that man is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... ' may seem rather a strange one. Yet it is true; for, unlike the dog, every horse has to be conquered before it can be brought wholly under the dominion of man. This result can be attained in more than one way; but, whatever may be the means, the primary object is to.make the horse believe that man is stronger than itself. The simplest mode of gaining this end is by the processes which have just been mentioned. The horse feels that a single man can arrest it while at liberty among its comrades, and choke the breath out of its body by some irresistible power. He can deprive it of sight in an equally mysterious manner, can tie its feet together, throw it down when he likes, mount its back and cling there as if he were part of itself, and, moreover, can force it to go in any direction which he chooses. It feels that whenever it tries to oppose his will, it suffers pangs of intense bodily pain. It realizes that at all points man is a master whom it is useless to resist, and thenceforth makes abject and total surrender of its will. Though our modern horse-breakers do not employ the mercilessly cruel process adopted by the NorthAmerican I ndian, the Gaucho, and other equestrian nations, they seldom can bring a horse completely under control without inflicting much pain upon it. Not many years ago, the process was far more severe, the animal being simply flogged into submission. Even the 'trick' horses of a circus were taught to perform their tasks through fear, a failure being always followed by a flogging for which the proprietor would nowadays be prosecuted. At the present time these horses are taught by gentle patience, accentuated by rewards when the task is properly performed.. Even the Rarey system, by which the...
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