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because lie had been put in a position that 

 enabled him to do it. 



Since that time, the same j)erson has 

 broken two other horses of greater natural 

 capabilities, and the success was proportion- 

 ately greater. 



Every one who takes any interest in 

 horses, recollects the horse May-Fly, when 

 first introduced to an American audience, 

 by Sands, of Welsh's circus. This horse, a 

 thorough-bred, belonging to the racing stud 

 of Baron Rothschild, was so vicious that he 

 had to be brought upon the race-course in a 

 van, so that he could see nothing till the 

 moment to start arrived. With even this 

 and similar precautions, he was considered 

 dangerous and unmanageable. The master 

 hand was required, and, under its influence, 

 all such things as vice and unmanageable 

 temper disappeared. Instead of violent force 

 on the part of man, which would only have 

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