CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



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Mf , 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 ex- 

 plained. Mademoiselle Isabel's whip-and-spur plan. Account 

 of the Irish whisperer Dan Sullivan. Usual modes of taming 

 vicious horses. Starving. Physic. Sleepless nights. Bleed- 

 ing. 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 com- 

 pared. The South American plan explained. A French plan. 

 Grrisone the Neapolitan's advice. The discovery of Mr. Rarey 

 by Mr. GJoodenough. Yisit 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 com- 

 menced with Lords Palmerston, Grranville, &c. Cruiser tamed. 

 History of. Enthusiastic crowd at Cruiser exhibition, 

 System approved by the Earl of Jersey and Sir Tatton Sykes. 

 Close of first subscription list. Anecdote of Mr. Gurncy's 

 colt Personal sketch of Mr. Rarey 1 



CHAPTER IL 

 Mr. Rarey's Introduction Remarks on 



