18 , PRELIMINARY REMARKS. 



educated horses, Star and Tiger, without lines, bits or bridle, 

 through the streets of all the principal cities of the United States 

 and Canada, attracting the attention and admiration of all persons 

 who witnessed his wonderful performance. 



We might mention numerous other inferior horse-trainers who 

 have been travelling throughout the United States, teaching 

 various methods and systems of training horses, and could give 

 every strap-rope and appliance used for the subjugation of the 

 horse, from the days of Sullivan, the Irish Whisperer, down to 

 the present day, but this would take up too much of the reader's 

 time to no purpose. 



The author will do away with all these patent bits, bridles and 

 appliances, and show that the wildest and most vicious horse can 

 be managed with a common, ordinary set of harness, such as is 

 ordinarily used on the farm, in the livery stable, or by private 

 individuals. 



In examining the works of the celebrated gentlemen we have 

 just mentioned, and various other writers on the subject of man- 

 aging horses, I find their universal opinion to be that the horse 

 is a very intelligent animal, and they have endeavoured to 

 manage and control him from an intelligent standpoint. 



Now the writer will endeavor to prove that if the horse had half 

 as much sense as is attributed to him, he would kick the heads 

 off of more than one-half of the people who undertake to manage 

 him. We will endeavor to prove before we get through that the 

 horse is a machine to a certain extent, and is controlled and man- 

 aged the same in the hands of a good horseman as the locomotive 

 is controlled by a skillful locomotive engineer, with one exception. 



