xii PREFACE. 



As a personal explanation, I may mention that 

 after having spent many years racing and training 

 in India, during which time I practised the 

 ordinary methods of breaking, I returned to 

 England, where I learned the use of the standing 

 martingale and long driving reins, as applied 

 specially to jumpers, from Mr. John Hubert 

 Moore, who was the cleverest " maker" of 

 steeplechasers Ireland ever knew. He, I may 

 remark, obtained these methods, in his youth, 

 from an old Irish breaker, named Fallen, who 

 was born more than a century ago. I had also 

 valuable instruction in "horse taming" from 

 Professor Sample. Having read an account of 

 MM. Raabe and Lunel's "hippo-lasso" as a 

 means of control for veterinary operations, I 

 conceived, with happy results, the idea of utilising 

 this ingenious contrivance in breaking. I also 

 learned, about the same time, how to halter a 

 loose horse without running any danger of being 

 kicked, or bitten. 



