DICK CHRISTIAN AND M. BAUCHER. 5 



it, and ^as evidently totally ignorant of the foundation 

 of the Rarey system. 



The accomplished Colonel Greenwood, who was 

 equally learned in the manege of the Haute Ecole, and 

 skilled in the style of the English hunting-fields, gives 

 no hint of a method which reduces the time for taming 

 colts from months to hours, and makes the docility of 

 five horses out of six merely a matter of a few weeks' 

 patience. 



The sporting newspapers of England and America 

 were so completely off the true scent when guessing at 

 the Rarey method, that they put faith in recipes of oils 

 and scents for taming horses. 



Dick Christian a genius in his way when on 

 horseback unmatched for patience and pluck, but with 

 no taste for reading and no talent for generalizing, 

 used to conquer savages for temporary use by tying up 

 one fore-foot, and made good water-jumpers of horses 

 afraid of water by making them smell it and wade 

 through it ; so that he came very near the Rarey me- 

 thods, but missed the chain of reasoning that would 

 have led him to go further with these expedients. * 



Mons. Baucher, of Paris (misprinted Faucher in the 

 American edition), the great modern authority in horse- 

 training and elaborate school equitation, under whom our 

 principal English cavalry generals have studied amongst 

 others, two enthusiastic disciples of Mr. Rarey, Lord 

 Vivian and General Laurenson, commanding the cavalry 

 at Alclershott admitted Mr. Rarey s system was not 

 only " most valuable," but " quite new to him." 



After Mr. Rarey had taught five or six hundred sub- 

 scribers, some of whom of course had wives, Mr. Cooke, 



* See "The Post an the Paddock," by "The Druid." 



