horsebreaking

Updated: July 4, 2025

And now, while your horse is eating those few ears of corn, is the proper time to see that your halter is ready and all right, and to reflect on the best mode of operations; for, in the horsebreaking, it is highly important that you should be governed by some system. And you should know before you attempt to do anything, just what you are going to do, and how you are going to do it.

P. R. Kincaid - The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses

Knightley, still making believe to joke and, by George! if he could laugh then, he could sing a song with a bullet through him 'you're getting bad-tempered since you used to be horsebreaking for Mr. Lowe. Don't you remember that chestnut Sir Henry colt that no one else could ride, and I backed you not to get thrown, and won a fiver?

Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields