TO THE READER. 8 



animal, and render it amenable to reins and bit, not 

 only for the time being, but for all the future? It is 

 on this foundation my system is based — viz., kindness 

 and firmness versus abuse and cruelty. My system has 

 been universally approved of by the thousands who 

 have witnessed it in Great Britain, including the Duke 

 of Westminster (whose letter I append at end of 

 book), Duke of Manchester, Lord Middleton, Duke of 

 Northumberland, Marquis Talon, Colonel Anstruther 

 Thomson (who has been for nearly half-a-century 

 Master of Hounds), Earl Percy, Lord Combermere, 

 Earl of Galloway, and a host of other noblemen and 

 gentlemen too numerous to mention, but whose good 

 opinion I strove to earn, and was thankful to obtain. 



So I leave the reader to form his own ideas of its 

 merits or demerits, and shall also feel thankful to him 

 if he decides on the former opinion ; but as I am 

 eminently a practical and not a theoretical teacher, 

 in the latter position I may have to take a back seat. 

 I shall still have the satisfaction of knowing that I 

 have endeavoured to make my system more widely 

 known, not only for the benefit of the horse-owner, 

 but also for that of the horse himself 



I am, dear Reader, 



Your most obedient Servant, 



SYDNEY GALVAYNE. 



