| Show TREATMENT OF BALKY HORSE animal Is not to be cured by either beating beatin g or abuse only pr practical a ati method in tin an article in our animals alfred 11 II pope says that the ball balky Y horse has the most sense and the confirmed runaway horse the least sense of any horse the balky horse hors e is not to be cured by beating and abuse it appears from h his Is article that lie he makes it business bifone s s 0 of buying eff ases b breaking r L a k 11 9 them ot 0 the habit and Tind selling fig them again it it la is 0 6 o be presumed fi resumed therefore that he knows whereof he spends tie ae makes no mention of such methods as that of building a fire under a horse as lie he condemns any kind of abuse when a horse makes mak up his hig mind to balk he be has no room in lik mind for anything else whipping only increases his stubbornness but there Is ir a method which goes to the cause of the trouble tron ble with a single idea in his he hend lid tt it was reasoned that the best way to 9 get the horse to move wag to give him another idea some thiis else to think about the trainer thon then remembered that horses and resent interference Interfere nde with their liberty to move their ears at will it was noticed that a horse never changes his course of action without moving lits his ears cars it was then fourd found mai aben a horse balked it annoyed him film to havo have one ear pushed under the crown of af the bridle so that he could not move it 1 and it was also found that if it the ear car was loft left there for about 20 minutes he was so annoyed that I 1 he forgot about hla his determination to balk he shook his head turned to one side and then the other and made every effort to release the ear this occupied his mind until when the driver ordered him to go he went after a few minutes the ear was was released release d and he went on as it if he had forgotten all about balking in conclusion ladu writer sala said this trick wil ki break a horse of balking ti I 1 invariably start one that hasp hd hj on the road provided he al ready been whipped and abused to a point where nothing matters ft 1 Y 0 |
