372 SUBJECTION. 



Although I could explain the mystery of his success in 

 a few paragraphs, yet in consequence of the great niiscon- 

 cej3tion in regard to it, and to the merits of his claims, I 

 consider it necessary to give my reasons for doubting their 

 genuineness, as well as the way I was finally able to obtain 

 the facts. 



There were several points which to me would not seem 

 to bear close investigation : First, if this treatment enabled 

 Mr. Rarey to perform the feats claimed in Europe, why would 

 it not, upon thorough trial by himself and others, produce 

 the same resrftts here upon horses only moderately vicious ? 

 Second, Cruiser and the other cases referred to, out of his 

 hands became again entirely unmanageable. How was it 

 that he could control such horses, while others, using the 

 same treatment, utterly failed upon them ? These were 

 questions which puzzled and misled the public, making 

 them believe, as the only reasonable explanation, that 

 Rarey had a magnetic or psychological power over horses 

 that others did not possesf^and which enabled him to con- 

 trol them as he wished ; or that he gave them drugs, or 

 something that gave him power to control them for the 

 time. Another fact : Before going to Europe he made no 

 especial reputation as a horse-tamer,* and after dissolving 

 partnership with Mr. Goodenough in England, or after his 

 return to this country, he made no special stir, nor did he 

 make the improvements to be reasonably expected from a 

 man capable of the resources and skill necessary to attain 

 the success with which he had been credited. He simply 

 repeated the same method of treatment, depending mainly 

 upon the prestige of his European reputation for enlisting 

 attention here. It also came out after his return from 



* During my early professional career, I traveled over imith country that had 

 been visited by Rarey previous to his going to Europe, especially in Southern Penn- 

 sylvania, and frequently heard of him. All the statements concerning him sub- 

 stantially agreed in the fact that he traveled alone from town to town, with but 

 very indifEerent success. 



