xii PREFA CE. 



As a personal explanation, I may mention that 

 after having spent many years racing and training 

 in India, during which time I practised the 

 ordinary methods of breaking, I returned to 

 England, where I learned the use of the standing 

 martingale and long driving reins, as applied 

 specially to jumpers, from Mr. John Hubert 

 Moore, who was the cleverest "maker" of 

 steeplechasers Ireland ever knew. He, I may 

 remark, obtained these methods, in his youth, 

 from an old Irish breaker, named Fallon, who 

 was born more than a century ago. I had also 

 valuable instruction in ''horse taming" from 

 Professor Sample. Having read an account of 

 MM. Raabe and Lunel's ''hippo-lasso^' as a 

 means of control for veterinary operations, I 

 conceived, with happy results, the idea of utilising 

 this ingenious contrivance in breaking. I also 

 learned, about the same time, how to halter a 

 loose horse without running any danger of being 

 kicked, or bitten. 



