THE 



ART OF TAMING HORSES, 



CHAPTER I. 



]\Ii-, Rarey's pamphJet first publislied in Ohio. — Experience of old 

 system. — Comj)iled and invented new. — Tying up the fore-leg 

 known many years ago, see Stamford Almanack. — Forgotten and 

 not valued. — Reference to Captain Nolan's and Colonel Greenwood's 

 works on horsemanship. — Dick Christian missed the discovery, — 

 Baucher's plan of laying down a horse explained. — Mademoiselle 

 Isabel's whip-and-spur plan.— Account of the Irish whisperer Dan 

 Sullivan. — Usual modes of taming vicious horses. — Starving. — 

 Physic. — Sleepless nights. — Bleeding. — Biting the ear. — Story of 

 Kentish coachman. — The Ellis system. — Value of the Rarey system 

 as compared with that of ordinary horse-tamers. — Systems of 

 Australia and Arabia compared. — The South American plan ex- 

 plained. — A French plan. — Grisone the NeapoKtan's ad\ace. — The 

 discovery of Mr. Rarey by Mr. Groodenough. — Visit to Canada. — 

 To England. — Lord Alfred Paget. — Sir Richard Airey. — System 

 made known to them. — To Mr. Jos. Anderson. — Messrs. Tattersall. — 

 Sir Matthew Ridley's black horse tamed. — Subscription list of 500 

 opened. — Stafford tamed. — Description of. — Teaching commenced 

 with Lords Palmerston, Granville, &c. — Cruiser tamed. — History 

 of. — Enthusiastic crowd at Cruiser exhibition. — System approved 

 by the Earl of Jersey and Sir Tatton Sj^kes. — Close of first sub- 

 scription list. — Anecdote of Mr, Gurney's colt. — Personal sketch of 

 Mr. Rarey. 



1\Ih. Rarey is a farmer from Ohio, in the United States. 

 Five years ago he wrote the Uttle book which forms the 

 text of the following complete account of his system, with 



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