Timely Fact #4:

The whip is parent of stubborness, but gentleness wins obedience. There is no such thing as balkiness in a horse that is kindly treated, and that gets an occasional apple, potato or sugar from his master's hand.

Timely Fact #5:

When a hose is afraid or excited, quiet him by kind words and caress. An excited horse is practically crazy and to whip him is dangerous, foolish and cruel. I have known a single blow of whip to balk a spirited horse. Whipping a balky horse is barbarous and only increases balkiness.

Each one of these senses must be educated before colt is trained. A colt's education may be compared with that of a child to a great extent. A horse's reasoning powers are limited to his past experience. So we must reason with him by acts alone. Hence importance of beginning every step with colt right; for by our acts he learns.

The successful school-master aims first to teach child to have confidence in him. Hence first lesson we give colt is simply to teach it to have confidence in us and that we are its best friend and don't intend to hurt it. The book continues with first lesson a colt is to have which is "How to gain a colt's confidence."

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