270 CONFESSIONS OF A HOUSE DEALER, 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

 KR. KIREY'S SYSTEM OF TAMING HORSES. 



EVERYTHING we wish to teach a colt should be conveyed 

 to him in as intelligible a form as possible, and if our 

 wishes and signals are understood by him, it will be 

 more than I ever experienced (in the training of some 

 thousands of horses) if he is not always found ready to 

 obey. 



But it is necessary that some impression should be 

 made upon the instinct of the colt in order to rivet his 

 attention exclusively upon his trainer; therefore the 

 policy of being alone with him adopted by Sullivan, 

 the Irish horse whisperer, and others (before Mr. Good- 

 enough introduced Mr. Barey into this country to teach 

 and divulge the secret) must be obvious to all who 

 have a practical knowledge of horses, or of animal 

 nature. For, not only the horse, but every animal sub- 

 jugated by the superior intellect of man, can be much 

 sooner taught what it is required of him when alone, 

 than when surrounded by objects which have a tendency 

 to divert attention from the trainer. 



The casting system, applied in the first stages of Mr. 

 Barey' s method of training colts, is selected and preferred 

 to mske the necessary kn press! on, because it is a fitting 



