Foreword 



three and four j^ears' old, which, on account 

 of the war, and the scarcity of men, had received 

 no kind of handUng and were extremely wild.* 

 It has occurred to me that this may be the case 

 with young horses in many parts of the 

 country, and that, therefore, it might be of 

 use to many owners, and save horses much 

 mistreatment at the hands of incompetent 

 grooms, if I could put in writing, in a way 

 to be generally understood, the principles of 

 my own methods of training. I have seen so 

 much mishandling and brutal treatment of 

 horses, by men who do not understand them, 

 that I should be glad if anything I could ^vrite 

 might perchance save a few horses from such 

 wrong-doing. My two sons being in the Army, 

 helping to tame the Huns, and my first grand- 

 sons having only just arrived on this planet, 

 it is unlikely that I shall have the privilege 

 of imparting my methods to these youngsters 

 by personal instruction ; and it has, therefore, 

 been an additional inducement to wTite this 

 little book, in order to hand down such special 

 knowledge of horsecraft, as I possess, to my 

 own descendants. 



I have been in many parts of the world 

 and have seen and stu.died many methods of 

 breaking, training, and taming horses, includ- 

 ing those of quite celebrated tamers, such as 

 Captain Hayes, Galvayne, Professor Smith, 



*This Foreword was written in 1917. 



