TO THE READER. 



/^N my arrival in England I was prepared to 

 encounter a great deal of opposition, and have 

 been agreeably surprised to find more appreciation, 

 kind feeling, and hospitality than I, as a stranger, 

 could have hoped or expected. Horses are universally 

 a subject of interest, and there is a sort of good- 

 fellowship all over the world between the admirers of 

 that noble and useful animal; yet Great Britain, I had 

 always heard, was adverse to anything new (being 

 essentially an old country in every sense of the word), 

 and, therefore, I expected to meet with a certain 

 amount of prejudice and antagonism when I came to 

 teach an entirely new system of Horse Taming and 

 Training in the very centre of horse breeding. 

 English horses and English trainers and jockeys are 

 world-renowned, and with reason ; but we Colonials 

 in our enlarged sphere of action may pick up a few 

 notions useful even to those who have made horses 

 their one occupation or hobby all their lives. Under 

 the old system a colt went through an unalterable 

 curriculum of training, taking as a rule from eight to 

 ten weeks. With my method I have proved in 



