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SUBJECTION. 



it would insure considerable success in the control of some 

 horses, it would utterly fail upon others. I was led to be- 

 lieve that possibly there might be some secret about the 

 treatment that I did not understand. To satisfy myself 

 upon this jDoint, I had a great desire to see Mr. Rarey him- 

 self explain and illustrate it. This I Avas finally able to 

 do in Pittsburg, Pa., in the early summer of 1865, when 

 he gave a series of exhibitions there. I exhibited there 



Fig. 262. — The method as now used, giving all the power desired to throw- 

 any horse with ease, and without danger. 



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the week before, and remained over to see him. His ap- 

 plication of treatment was precisely what I had long un- 

 derstood and practiced. 



I next desired to see Cruiser, and study the peculiari- 

 ties of his disposition. In 1868, when in Columbus, Ohio, 

 and neighboring towns, I had an opportunity of submitting 

 several of his colts to treatment. Two of them were con- 

 idered entirely unmanageable, having resisted all efforts to 



