THE 



ART OF TAMING HORSES, 



CHAPTER I. 



Mr. Rarey's pamphlet first published in Ohio. Experience of old 

 system. Compiled and invented new. Tying up the fore-leg 

 known many years ago, see Stamford Almanack. Forgotten and 

 not valued. Reference to Captain Nolan's and Colonel Greenwood's 

 works on horsemanship. Dick Christian missed the discovery. 

 Baucher's plan of laying down a horse explained. Mademoiselle 

 Isabel's whip-and-spur plan. Account of the Irish whisperer Dan 

 Sullivan. Usual modes of taming vicious horses. Starving. 

 Physic. Sleepless nights. Bleeding. Biting the ear. Story of 

 Kentish coachman. The Ellis system. Value of the Rarey system 

 as compared with that of ordinary horse-tamers. Systems of 

 Australia and Arabia compared. The South American plan ex- 

 plained. A French plan. Grisone the Neapolitan's advice. The 

 discovery of Mr. Rarey by Mr. Goodenough. Visit to Canada. 

 To England. Lord Alfred Paget. Sir Richard Airey. System 

 made known to them. To Mr. Jos. Anderson. Messrs. Tattersall. 

 Sir Matthew Ridley's black horse tamed. Subscription list of 500 

 opened. Stafford tamed. Description of. Teaching commenced 

 with Lords Palmerston, Granville, &c. Cruiser tamed. History 

 of. Enthusiastic crowd at Cruiser exhibition. System approved 

 by the Earl of Jersey and Sir Tatton Sykes. Close of first sub- 

 scription list. Anecdote of Mr. Gurney's colt. Personal sketch of 

 Mr. Rarey. 



MR. RAREY is a farmer from Ohio, in the United States. 

 Five years ago he wrote the little book which forms the 

 text of the folio whig complete account of his system, with 



