WHY HORSES BUCK.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11203, 25 February 1891, Page 3

WHY HORSES BUCK.

(COHTRIBtJTED BY SIR ANDREW C. FLEMINa, BABT., NEW ZEALAND HORSE-TAMER.) The first question asked about a horso is, "Does he buck?' ' Now, if horses were properly trained, there is hardly one that will try such a thing, but unfortunately the rough riding system is one, to mind, that '.teaches the horse to do the .very thing that we do not want him to learn ; that is to say, if we wanted i to train a horse to bitck, we would adopt the very means that the rough rider takes when he 'tries' 1 to cure him of that habit. The reason that the horse tries to unseat i his rider is, in nine cases out of ten, because he is frightened at the sight ,of the man on his back, and so .uses a means which is termed bucking to get rid of the ' wohld-be rider,' and if the horse is really a buck-jumper he will, if not unseat his rider] give him an unpleasant shaking. To prevent the bucking the trainer must thoroughly accustom the colt to mounting and dismounting with just a circingle. On no account use the saddle tbe first time. Allow the colt to move a step, then slip off, and repeat mounting and dismou&ting,always slipping off after a few steps. In. a short time he will carry his rider round the yard. Then you may ride with a saddle repeating the process' above described.— N.Z. farmer.