TRAINING, AND GENERAL MANAGEMENT. II 



people who undertake to work and manage him. 

 Then no man could drive him, as the reason of the 

 driver might be opposed to the reason of the horse, in 

 which case accidents in crowded thoroughfares would 

 constantly occur. The horse does not know its own 

 strength, until it in some manner or other becomes 

 man's master. Every reasoning being knows his or 

 her strength ; but let the horse once obtain the mastery 

 and it will rapidly become more tricky, and perhaps 

 quite worthless. 



To one fault of the old system I have already 

 alluded — its basis. In my opinion, there is also a lot of 

 quite unnecessary paraphernalia, too much lungeing, 

 (and I question whether lungeing is at all requisite 

 to the perfect training of colts) ; and, finally, the great 

 length of time consumed in the entire operation, 

 thereby rendering the training of the young animal 

 such a serious item of expense against the breeder of 

 the ordinary class of horses, that frequently his profit 

 when selling him at four years old is next to nothing, 

 or at all events not worth the risk, even if the colt 

 turns out fairly well ; then if the colt turns out badly 

 the breaker has to be paid for spoiling him, and the 

 breeder for compensation has a worthless animal 

 thrown upon his hands. 



Now to meet the wants in the old system, Mr. 

 Rarey came to Great Britain some 25 to 30 years 

 ago, to introduce his method of taming vicious horses 



