THE IIOKSE. 2V 



" Cruiser has been vicious from a foal, always troublesome to handlo 

 (we are using his owner's language), and showing temper on every 

 opportunity. lie would kneel in the street, and tear the ground with 

 his teeth in his paroxysms of rage. — He would lean against the wall of 

 his box, and kick and scream for ten minutes together; and he was re 

 turned from stables in which he had been placed, because his savai>;G 

 propensities rendered the care of him too dangerous an office for any 

 man. For days, he would allow no one to enter his box ; and on one 

 occasion, tore an iron bar, one inch thick, in two with his teeth. Such 

 an animal was not a very promising subject to operate upon ; but Mr. 

 Rarey undertook his cure. He first subjugated a two-year-ola fiUcy 

 perfectly unbi*oken, in half an hour — riding her — opening an umbrella, 

 beating a drum upon her, (fee. He then took Cruiser in band, and, 

 says Lord Dorchester, 'in three hours, Mr. Rarey and myself mounted 

 him.' He had not been ridden for nearly three years, and was so vicious 

 that it was impossible even to dress him ; and it was necessary to keep 

 him muzzled constantly. The following morning Mr. Rarey led him 

 behind an open carriage, on his way to London." 



Twice the creature flew at the tamer with a fierce cry, but be kept 

 out of his reach behind a half-door ; at last he grew a little kinder, and 

 Mr. Rarey succeeded in tying his head to the rack. This sense of 

 restraint, which he had not known for three years, maddened the horse, 

 the blood-vessels of the head dilated, and his frenzy for nearly twenty 

 minutes was such, that Lord Dorchester begged Mr. Rarey not to peril 

 his life, and to think no more of the £100 bond, which he had given, 

 to return him cured in three months. However, America was not daunt- 

 ed; and when the horse was slightly exhausted, he made his first eifort, 

 and by the end of three hours the evil spirit seemed to have departed. 

 On the Monday following, Mr. Rarey opened his school. The "incura- 

 bly savage" horse was there, and was gentle as a dove, before an audi- 

 ence of full three hundred ; all of whom had heard of his vicious pro- 

 pensities. You could have heard a pin drop, when the American horse- 

 tamer asked his four-legged pupil to shake hands with him, at the termi- 

 nation of a lecture, listened to with intense interest, by an exalted and 

 delighted assembly of the noblest and fairest in the land. The Wed- 

 nesday after Mr. Rarey rode the horse about London. 



PRINCIPLES OF THE RAREY SYSTEM.— "i^/r^-^— That the horse is so 

 constituted by nature that he will not offer resistance to any demand 

 made of him which he fully comprehends, if made in a way consistent 

 with the laws of his nature. Second — That he has no consciousness of 

 his strength beyond his experience, and can be handled according to 

 our will without force. Third — That we can, in compliance with the 

 laws of his nature, by which he examines all things new to him, take 

 any object, however frightful, around, over, or on him, that does not in- 

 flict pain, without causing him to fear." 



The aff"ectionate enthusiasm with which the horse is spoken of by Mr. 

 Rarey in the paragraph annexed, copied from his work, would also seem 

 to indicate that any thing but harsh means are used in his subjection. 

 Mr. Rarey says : 



"The horse, according to the best accounts we can gather, has been 



