124 T^E HORSE: ITS TAMING, 



" Taming a nervous Horse. — Professor Galvaynes 

 Classes. — The pupils have been wishing to procure a 

 horse for the professor that would test the system of 

 taming to the utmost, and the chance came at last, for 

 on Friday he was in the ring with a very excitable, 

 nervous, shying horse, the property of a Doctor. 

 This was a fine strong animal, and could not 

 be controlled under excitement ; refused to pass 

 steam trams, railway bridges-, &c., and gave other 

 evidence of his nervous nature. The professor put 

 this horse through his system, and in a little over an 

 hour, crackers were being let off, both in front and 

 behind him, and did not seem to cause him the least 

 annoyance. At the conclusion of the class, the 

 Doctor's groom rode the horse out into the street, 

 right up to a steam tram, and then home, without any 

 show of his nervous habits." 



" Taming a vicious Race-horse. — On Monday after- 

 noon, the members of Professor Galvayne's class in 

 Sunderland assembled in the marquee, Hudson-road, 

 to the number of nearly 200, for the purpose of 

 witnessing the professor's system illustrated on an 

 extremely vicious horse called 'North Riding,' the 

 property of a local gentleman. Before the proceedings 

 commenced. Colonel W. H. Allison, of Undercliffe, on 

 behalf of the class, presented Professor Galvayne with 

 a handsome illuminated address. Professor Galvayne, 



