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Long Reins. — *' Long-rein driving," or, in other 

 words, driving a colt on a circle or in a straight line 

 with a pair of reins or ropes, has been forgotten and 

 brought in as a new art several times. An Austra- 

 lian named Galvayne claims that he introduced the 

 correct and scientific way of using the long reins 

 into England in the 'eighties, and he certainly was 

 an artist : I have seen him at work. Hayes, who 

 was lecturing in this country on horse-training at 

 about the same period, states that he learnt their use 

 in Ireland from a Mr. John Hubert Moore, and that 

 this gentleman derived his knowledge from an old 

 Irish breaker named Fallon, who was born in the lat- 

 ter part of the eighteenth century. Hayes also seems 

 to infer that the practice was unknown in England 

 until he himself introduced it. As a matter of fact 

 an English gentleman named Mr. Browne used 

 long reins in the sixteenth century, and in 1624 

 wrote a book entitled " Browne, his Fifty Years' 

 Practice, or an Exact Discourse Concerning Snaffle- 

 riding, etc.," giving the way of carrying out long- 

 rein driving. His methods must have been practi- 

 cally those of the present day, as he is careful to ex- 

 plain : ** Now when you have him perfect on either 



