When you have done all you desire to the horse tied up

When you have done all you desire to the horse tied up

When you have done all you desire to the horse tied up, smoothed his ears, if fidgety about the ears the hind-legs, if a kicker shown him a saddle, and allowed him to smell it, and then placed it on his back mounted him yourself, and pulled him all over take off all the straps. In moving round him for the purpose of gentling him, walk slowly always from the head round the tail, and again to the head: scrape the sweat off him with a scraper; rub him down with a wisp; smooth the hair of his legs, and draw the fore one straight out. If he has fought hard, he will lie like a dead horse, and scarcely stir. You must now again go over him as conscientiously as if you were a mesmeric doctor or shampooer: every limb must be gentled, to use Mr. Rarey’s expressive phrase; and with that operation you have completed your first and most important lesson.