PREFACE. 



I OFFER this work to the favourable consideration 

 of the public, as an attempt to describe a 

 reasoned-out system of horse-breaking, which I 

 have found, by practical experience, to be easy 

 of execution, rapid in its effects, and requiring the 

 possession of no exceptional strength, activity, 

 pluck, or horsemanship by the operator, who, to 

 become expert in it, will, as a rule, need only 

 practice. It is in accordance with our English 

 and Irish ideas on the subject ; for it aims at 

 teaching the horse " manners," and giving him a 

 snafHe-bridle mouth ; so that he will " go up to 

 the bridle," and "bend" himself in thorough 

 obedience to rein and leg. 



