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hand and he doth set his trot comely and stately, you 

 may venture to set a saddle on him." 



Lord Pembroke, Sir Sidney Medows, Freeman, 

 and Adams, all practised long-rein driving in vari- 

 ous ways, and wrote about it in the latter part of 

 the eighteenth and early in the nineteenth centuries, 

 yet Galvayne and Hayes were both able to tour the 

 country and make a financial success of exhibiting the 

 practice as new in the latter half of the nineteenth. 



About twenty years after Hayes's demonstrations 

 of long-rein driving on his horse-breaking tours, his 

 methods were embodied in the English Cavalry 

 Training Manual. The appliance is now in general 

 use at Netheravon ; at the Woolwich Riding Estab- 

 lishment it is employed for horses which cannot be 

 backed or are refractory, and sometimes for teach- 

 ing jumping, but every riding instructor is taught 

 how to handle the reins. I understand that the 

 Messrs. Miller have very generally discarded them. 



According to Berenger this appliance was well- 

 known on the Continent at a much earlier period 

 than the eighteenth century, but it is not used abroad 

 now, nor has it been for some considerable time. 



As foreigners look upon horse-training as more 



