“Woolwich, August, 1887.

“We, the undersigned, having been through a course of Practical Instruction in Lectures given by Captain Hayes on his system of Breaking, Mouthing Horses, and curing them of bad habits, &c., have great pleasure in certifying that we have gained much valuable practical knowledge. Captain Hayes gives such excellent reasons for all he does, that he infuses confidence into those he instructs. With practice any one may use his various methods with the probability of arriving at as great success as himself in the management of horses:—

INDEX.

[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [J], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [Q], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [Y].

Aggressiveness, [242]
Association of ideas, [12]
Ball, Difficult to, [223]
Banham, Mr., [86]
Banks and ditches, [187]
Bars of the mouth, [46], [65]
Baucher, [56]
Bearing-reins, [55]
Begging, [259]
Bending the neck to the rein, [49]
Biting, [242]
Blew, Mr., [74]
Blindfolding, [107]
Boring, [216]
Bowing, [260]
Boy, [10]
Bridle, difficult to, [112], [223]
Bridle, suitability of horse to the, [46]
Bridle twitch, [118]
Bridling horse for first time, [171]
Buck-jumpers, [203], [222]
’Bus horse, [12]
Capped Knee, [101]
Carrying head and neck, [44]
Cart horses, [12]
Catch, difficult to, [251]
Causes of faults, [2]
Chance of doing wrong, [23]
“Chancing” fences, [230]
Chucking up the head, [217]
Circling, [172], [260]
Coercion, [23]
Collar, [42]
Comanche bridle, [262], [263]
Coming up to call, [261]
Control, horse, [77]
Cowkicking, [105]
Cruiser, [17]
Crupper leading-rein, [148]
Curbs, [68]
Defeats, [20]
Defence, [60]
Deliberate vice, [3]
Difficult to ball, [223]
” ” bridle, [112]
” ” catch, [251]
” ” dismount from, [223]
” ” drench, [223]
” ” handle, [223]
” ” harness, [233]
” ” mount, [10], [12], [223]
” ” put into train, [225]
” ” shoe, [225]
Difficult to unharness, [235]
Direction of pull of the reins, [50]
Dismount from, difficult to, [223]
Docile, rendering horses, [147]
Dogs, [28]
Doing wrong, not getting a chance of, [23]
Double hitch Buonaparte bridle, [114]
Double sheet-bend, [136]
Drench, difficult to, [223]
Driving newly-broken horse, [247]
Driving pad, [166]
Dumb jockeys, [69]
“Dwelling” on his stride, [51]
Elastic reins, [69]
Esa, Mr., [118]
Expedition in breaking, [33]
Fatigue, [25]
Fanchion, [114], [151]
Fence, riding at a, [59]
Fences, running out at, [231]
” , rushing at, [232]
Field, the, [256]
Fighting the horse, [37]
Finish of a race, [51]
Fire, unsteady under, [226]
First step, [32]
Fixing hind quarters, [60]
Following, [261]
Foreleg, holding up, [96]
” , lifting up, [93], [94], [96]
” , taking up, [88]
” , tying up, [99], [102]
Frasier, Mr., [113]
Gagging a horse, [143]
Gag, wooden, [145]
Gateacre, Colonel, [143]
“Game,” nervous horses not, [6]
Gear, improvised, [272]
Gentling hind leg, [135]
Gentling neck, [81], [88]
Gentling the horse, [151]
Going level, [51]
Good hands, [65]
Good mouth chief requirement, [30]
Groom, [28], [29]
Ground, keeping horse on the, [157]
Haltering, Pratt’s Method of, [86]
Halter, rope, [78]
Halter twitch, [108]
Haltering loose horse, [80]
Hamilton, [153]
Hands, good, [65]
Handle, difficult to, [223]
Hanging against the pole, [236]
” on the headstall, [251]
Handkerchief, picking up a, [268]
Hard pulling, [66]
Harness, breaking to, [212]
” , difficult to, [233]
” , faults in, [233]
” , lying down in, [240]
” , plunging when starting in, [241]
Head and neck, carrying the, [44]
Head and tail, tying the, [197], [206]
Head, chucking up the, [217]
” , position of the, [66]
Headstall, hanging on the, [251]
Headstall twitch, [117], [118]
Hickman, Colonel, [74], [249]
Hind-leg, gentling, [135]
” “ , lifting up, [126], [135]
Hind-quarters, fixing, [60]
Hippo-lasso, [119]
Hobble, improvising a, [143]
Holding horse down, [165]
Holding up fore-leg, [96]
Horse-breaking, object of, 1
” ” , scope of, [14]
” ” , value of, [14]
Horse-control, [77]
How it is done, [32]
Idiocy, [21]
Improvised gear, [272]
Instinct, [7]
Intelligence of the horse, [9]
Jibbing, [18], [19], [60], [227], [236]
Jump, teaching to, [188]
Jumping faults, [230]
Jumping over another horse, [261]
Jumping too slowly, [230]
Keeping a horse on the ground, [157]
Kemp, Mr., [217]
Kicker, touching a, [7]
Kicking, [238], [244], [252]
Kicking at night, [252]
Kicking from nervousness, [4]
Kindness, [36]
Kissing, [265]
Ladies’ horses, breaking, [209]
Laughing, [265]
Leach, Mr., [96]
Leading-rein, crupper, [148]
Leg, outward, [56]
Leg strap, Rarey’s, [99]
” ” , stirrup leather, [105]
Lie down, making a horse, [153]
Lifting up fore-leg, [93], [94], [96]
” “ hind-leg, [126]
Linguist, [10]
Litter, pawing back the, [256]
Log for jumping, [188]
Loose horse, haltering, [80]
Lunging, [64]
Lying down, [265]
Lying down in harness, [240]
Magner, [151], [218]
Making horse lie down, [153]
Manners, testing, [271]
Martingale, running, [52]
” , standing, [70]
Mathematician, [10]
Memory of the horse, [9]
Mental qualities of the horse, [7]
Methods of breaking, various, [29]
Military exigencies, [34]
” riding, [52]
Mitchell, Mr., [239]
Moore, Mr. J. H., [174], [190], [249]
Mount, difficult to, [12], [223]
Mounting, Australian method, [204]
” horse for first time, [197]
Mouth, [30]
” , faults of, [216]
” , testing, [271]
Mouthing gear, [166]
” , on foot, [172]
” , principles of, [41]
Mouth-piece, action of, [47]
Muscles of the neck, [44], [45]
Mutton fist, [67]
Neck, gentling, [81], [88]
Neck muscles, [44], [45]
Neck, scratching the, [81]
Nervousness, [3], [18], [226]
Newmarket, [65], [179]
Night, kicking at, [252]
” , pawing at, [256]
“No!”, [266]
Noosing fore-leg, [93]
Nose-bands, [76]
Obeying the rein, [41]
Obeying without reins, [265]
Obey, making horse, [37]
Object of horse-breaking, 1
Ordinary method of breaking, [35]
Outward leg, [56]
Pad, driving, [166]
Pallin, Mr., [224], [256]
Pawing at night, [256]
Pawing back the litter, [256]
Peat, General, [146]
Permanency of breaking, [31], [35]
Personal influence, [28]
Petting horses, [10]
Plunging when starting in harness, [241]
Pole, gentling with the, [81], [88], [93]
” , hanging against the, [236]
” , pulling away from the, [241]
Polo, savaging at, [245]
” , shying off the ball at, [220]
Possibility of overcoming any vice, [16]
Pratt, Mr., [113], [151], [218]
Pratt’s method of haltering, [86]
” twitch, [113]
Principle of rendering horses docile, [38]
Pulling, [66], [218]
Pulling away from the pole, [241]
” successfully, [42]
Punishment, [24]
Quick breaking, [33]
Quiet to ride, [37]
Raabe and Lunel, [119]
Racing snaffle, thin, [69]
Ranks, refusing to quit the, [229]
Rarey, [15], [17]
Rareyfying, [24]
Rarey’s leg strap, [99]
Rawlins, Colonel, [93]
Rearing, [60], [219]
Reasoning, [8], [17]
Refusing, [231]
Rein-bearers, [171]
Rein, getting tail over the, [235]
Reining back, [63]
Rein, obeying the, [41]
Reins, [171]
Reins, pull of the, [50]
Rideable and driveable, [22]
Riding newly-broken horse, [247]
River, [13]
Rockwell, Mr., [151], [267]
Rope-halter, [78]
Rope-twitch, [113]
” ” , advantages of, [112]
Rough and ready method, [37]
Rubbing the tail, [256]
Running martingale, [52]
Running out at fences, [231]
Running reins, [55]
Rushing at fences, [232]
Saddling horse for first time, [171]
Salkeld, Colonel, [266]
Sample, Professor, [19], [22], [190], [208], [267]
Saunders, Mr., [102]
Savage, young, [39]
Savaging, [244]
Savaging at polo, [245]
Saving the mouth, [49], [50], [67], [68]
Scope of breaking, [14]
Scratching horse’s neck, [81]
See-sawing on a plank, [269]
Self-preservation, [10]
Shaking hands, [269]
Shaking the head, [270]
Sheet bend, double, [136]
Shoe, difficult to, [225]
Short tail, tying rope to, [143]
Shying, [220]
Shying off the ball at polo, [220]
Side reins, [55]
Sleeping standing, [258]
Snaffles, [68]
Spoiled horses, [34], [36]
Sprinter bar, tying tail to, [240]
Stable vices, [251]
Standing behind breaker, [78]
Standing martingale, [70]
Stand still, making horse, [86]
Stargazing, [53], [220]
“Steady!”, [111]
Stirrup leather for leg strap, [105]
Strait jacket, [118]
” ” , throwing with the, [152]
Striking out in front, [246]
Stubbornness, [18]
Suitability of horse to bridle, [47]
Sulking, [158]
Sulky horse, [24]
Sword, unsteady with a, [220]
Tail over the rein, getting the, [235]
Tail, rubbing the, [256]
Tail, short, [143]
” to sprinter bar, tying [240]
” with tape, tying, [257]
Taking up fore-leg, [88]
” “ hind-leg, [126]
Tape, tying tail with, [257]
Teaching horses tricks, [10], [259]
Temper, testing, [271]
Tender mouthed, [220]
Testing manners, [271]
” mouth, [271]
” temper, [271]
Then and there, [36]
Thin racing snaffle, [69]
Throwing with strait jacket, [152]
Tiring in the gallop, [51]
Touched, nervous of being, [226]
Touching a kicker, [7]
Train, difficult to put into, [225]
Turn, difficult to, [221]
” , teaching to, [56]
Turning, [59]
Twitch, bridle, [118]
” , headstall, [117], [118]
” , ordinary, [112], [113]
” , Pratt’s, [113]
Twitch, rope, [113]
Tying up fore-leg, [99], [102]
Unharness, difficult to, [235]
Value of breaking, [14]
Various methods, [29]
Vice, deliberate, [3]
Vice in the horse, [3]
Vices, [20]
” , stable, [251]
Voice, [27]
Waltzing, [270]
Wardrop, Colonel, [74], [182]
Whip, undue fear of, [241]
” , unsteady with the, [226]
White’s Veterinary Art, [54]
Without reins, obeying, [267]
“Yawing,” [221]
“Yes,” [270]
Yield, making the horse, [11]
Young horses, [43]
” savage, [39]

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