CHAPTER VI. 



Tainiug a colt or liorse. — Rarey's directions for strapping up and 

 laying down detailed. — Explanations by Editor. — To approach a 

 vicious horse with half door. — Cartwheel. — No. 1 strap applied. — 

 No. 2 strap applied. — Woodcuts of. — How to hop about. — Knot up 

 bridle. — Struggle described. — Lord B.'s improved No. 2 strap. 

 — Not much danger. — How to steer a horse. — Laid do-s\Ti, hov/ to 

 gentle. — To mount, tied up. — Place and preparations for training 

 described. 



In this chapter I change the arrangement of the original 

 work, and unite two sections which ]\Ir. Rarey has di- 

 vided, either hecause when he wrote them he was not 

 aware of the importance of what is really the cardinal 

 point, the mainstay, the foundation of his system, or he- 

 cause he wished to conceal it from the uninitiated. The 

 Earey system suhstitutes for severe longeing, for whip- 

 ping and spurring, blinkers, physic, starving, the twitch, 

 tying the tail down, sewing the ears together, putting 

 shot in the ears, and all the cruelties hitherto resorted 

 to for subduing high-spirited and vicious animals (and 

 very often the high-spirited become, from injudicious 

 treatment, the most vicious), a method of laying a horse 

 down, tying up his limbs, and gagging, if necessaiy, his 

 mouth, which makes him soon feel that man is his 

 superior, and yet neither excites his terror or his hatred. 

 These two sections are to be found at pp. 48 and 51 

 and at pp. 59 and 60, orig. edit., under the titles of 

 " How to drive a Horse that is veiy wild, and has any 

 vicious Habits," and <'How to make a Horse lie 



