JIBBING HORSES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1348, 10 April 1883, Page 3

JIBBING HORSES.

A writing to the Times on the subject of jibbing horses, suggests that, inasmuch as jibbing is the result of a temporary mental condition, the remedy , should lie in diverting thehorses attention. He saysl had a fine mare that , once now and then would jib, but we felt .no ' annoyance and endured littlo delay.l I .-••'i would tell the coachmen'to do nothing, 'above all not to whip her. I would alight I ,'* .and jinfie my keys near her ear, ;Thii ' 85 -%otiH then''pat ; her and preis my band down her leg and,lift up her-fore-foot'; then, with a piede of/storie, my 'pocket knife, or a large' coiii, hammer on her •■. • shoe a and on dropping her . , foot We k Jfirfeady for a freak start without ,' ; farther trouble, If l. were not present j the groom could do it. Allow me .to remark that ihis process may not be the '■ best to divert the thoughta of a horae, but • the principle to be borne in mind iB to change the prevailing idea. To this; end, .two other modes, among many, maybe adopted. For the '-driver of a - jibbing horse to be provided with a small bottle. •' of. something that a horse abhors, 1 iM ;; which jstings or irritates; by placing a :• ! ;i»all portion on the.tongue.of„the.ho.He,. all,its thoughts' are directed to clear its _•; mouth, and every other consideration is ' "clean gone.from,its mind, A small portiohof something that iB offensive, to the '' ? lense .of a horse.may be pluced near, or on - his nostril. 'He''will > Bnort, ; Bheezei- and '■* ' think noraqre'of hiii jib." To thiß, class : v ■ of remedipa'belonga theold-faabionedone of rubbing dir't ift'tho,horsed,mauth,' Ifeut' . .the difficulty with rank jibbers i.s.,that'of ... ' attention from.theirißßt purpose! 'Sometimes^oven,fire,sill.^not doit. y ( -.' ,