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brute like Cruiser or Archimedes, or any other 

 savage, is an accomplishment, I venture to say, 

 which belongs properly to the circus. I have a 

 very great respect for men like Captain M. Horace 

 Hayes, F.R.C.V.S., who subdue a monster of a 

 horse, or who take an unbroken colt and in one 

 lesson bring him to hand and back him, but their 

 art is not mine. In his entertaining work " Among 

 Men and Horses," Captain Hayes gives an account 

 of a visit which he paid to Kingsclere, and of what 

 he did whilst he was there. He says : " Through 

 the kindness of that good sportsman, Lord Chesham, 

 whom I had the pleasure of knowing in India when 

 he belonged to the 10th Hussars, I obtained per- 

 mission from the Duke of Westminster to have 

 Ormonde, the horse of all time, photographed, as I 

 wanted his portrait for the book I was writing on 

 the ' make and shape ' of horses. With this object I 

 went to Mr. John Porter's place at Kingsclere, and, 

 besides getting the horse ' taken,' I gave the great 

 trainer and his people a practical demonstration of 

 how to break-in and mouth young thoroughbreds. 

 To experiment upon he gave me a high-priced 

 yearling which had never been mounted, and which 

 belonged to the Prince of Wales. In about half an 

 hour I made the youngster so quiet and handy that 

 he allowed himself to be quietly ridden about the 

 paddock, and answered the indications of the reins 

 with a fair amount of precision. Mr. Porter seemed 

 very pleased with the work, and asked me where he 

 could get the tackle I used, as he wished to put in 



