126 THE HORSE: ITS TAMING, 



him, breeching him tightly, and drove him round the 

 ring both with and without bHnkers. He then stripped 

 the horse and turned him perfectly loose in the ring, 

 when the animal followed him round as docilely as a 

 dog, and rubbed its nose against his chest. He also 

 walked both backwards and forwards at word of com- 

 mand — in fact every atom of wickedness seemed to 

 have been taken out of him, a feat which very few of 

 them expected to see performed. It need hardly be 

 stated that the professor was greeted with round upon 

 round of applause at the conclusion of his difficult 

 achievement. At the close the pupils, in recognition 

 of his successful handling of ' North Riding,' deter- 

 mined to present him with a gold medal." 



" Tarning an ex-troop Horse. — Horse-taming in Edin- 

 burgJi. — Yesterday Professor Sydney Galvayne, the 

 Australian horse-tamer, had, at the Royal Riding 

 School, Tollcross, a difficult and dangerous subject 

 under his treatment. It was said to have been nearly 

 the death of more than one person who had under- 

 taken the task of breaking it in, and had been turned 

 out of regimental riding schools as unbreakable. The 

 horse showed its vice by tearing and kicking the ring 

 down, and in trying to get out of the marquee gave 

 some of the pupils a lively time of it. The masterly 

 manner in which Mr. Galvayne brought the animal 

 under command was loudly applauded, and at the close 



