THE NEW SYSTEM OF EDUCATING HORSES, 



There are so many who claim precedence as authors of 

 the New System, etc., and that, too, in increased propor- 

 tion to the ignorance and inexperience of those engaging 

 in the business as a matter of speculation, that a few words 

 of explanation, in relation to the part I have taken and of 

 my success in this field, becomes necessary as a matter of 

 duty and justice to myself and public. 



I have now been before the public over eleven years, 

 constantly employed in imparting a knowledge of such 

 principles of educating and managing horses as I found 

 to be most simple and practical. I claimed and adver- 

 tised a NEW SYSTEM from the start. In the winter of 

 1863-4 I wrote and published in Utica, N. Y., at the 

 Herald office, an exposition of my treatment called *^The 

 New System," copyrighting the same under that title. 



Sometime afterwards I sold to Mr, A. H. Rockwell, for 

 three hundred dollars, the right to republish this work under 

 his own name, a copy of the contract of sale of which I have 

 still in my possession. 



Mr. R. very unjustly, in the revision of this book, implies 

 having taught me, of having trained the horse Turco I then 

 owned, etc.; when the -fact was, I was over a year on the 

 road before I met or heard of him, I had trained and 

 exhibited this horse nearly two years before he saw him. To 

 Mr. Rockwell undoubtedly belongs the merit of giving pub- 

 lic exhibitions of the feature of driving a horse in the street 

 without reins with a whip. But Mr. Bunnell, of Wellsboro, 

 Tioga county, Pa., emphatically claims that his wife trained 

 this horse to be guided and controlled by motions of a whip, 

 and repeatedly exhibited him at County Fairs before selling 

 him, and before being purchased by Mr. R. This is not, 

 however, any discredit to Mr. Rockwell, being too simple a 

 feature of training to be regarded as much of an achieve- 

 ment; and besides, he has proved himself a gentleman of 



