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of animals, and one of the leaders in the Animal Cause 

 in England — has lately discarded -all check-reins in his 

 great stables and the Queen has followed suit. AYe hope 

 these illustrious examples will be emulated b}' the rich 

 and influential of America also, those who love and fol- 

 low all English fashions, who idiotically use the tight 

 check, "an instrument of torture and device of Satan" 

 as noted English authorities will term it. The Duke 

 and Duchess are foremost in all the gi'eat and noble 

 Animal reforms of the day. 



J. S. Rarey, the horse trainer, said : '^Almost every 

 wrong act of a horse is caused by fear, excitement or 

 mismanagement. One harsh word will increase the 

 pulse of a nervous horse ten beats a minute. Horses 

 know nothing about balking until forced into it by bad 

 management. Any balky horse can be started steady 

 and true in a few minutes. I never found one that I 

 could not teach to start his load in fifteen minutes and 

 usually in three. 



Intelligent horsemen have learned that kickers,, 

 biters and balkers are natural results of abuse, that 

 not one horse in a hundred is vicious until made so 

 by cruelty; that whipping a horse is as mean and sense- 

 less as whipping a baby, and that the most useful, obe- 



