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ner, easy to understand and easy to execute, of making 

 these obstacles disappear, distinguish this method from 

 all preceding ones, and render it of the greatest import* 

 ance to all riders. 



"The close relations that are established between 

 rider and horse give the former such a certainty of hand 

 and legs, and the latter such suppleness and obedience, 

 that a like result has never previously been obtained. 



*' Until now, no horseman has ever had such clear and 

 sure means for breaking a horse given him, even approx- 

 imatively, as are contained in this book. The trial will 

 give the most convincing proofs of this when we under- 

 take to appl)^ the princijiles therein contained ; but that 

 can only be considered a trial when made by following 

 strictly what is prescribed in the method. There is no 

 other method that can put the- horse so certainly in the 

 hand and in the legs of the rider ; no other method suc- 

 ceeds in developing so much address and assurance in 

 horse or rider : the horse feels at his ease, the rider is 

 absolute master of him, and both are at their ease. 

 * * * * Tj^^g jjg^ method 



teaches, further, what is of very great import- 

 ance, the most certain means of making the rider 

 perfectly in harmony with his horse, so that they can 

 understand and mutually trust one another, in such a 

 way that the horse obeys as punctually as the rider 

 guides him skilfully. In place of being obliged to break 

 every horse after our own particular fashion, we will 

 only, thanks to this method, have to occupy ourselves 

 with one horse, for it teaches us that the same means are 

 applicable to all horses. It is unnecessary to enumerate 

 the advantages the instruction of the rider gains from it, 

 for he escapes the martyrdom of the lessons being given 

 him on awkward, badly-broken horses. Riders will 



