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them after the lapse of a few weeks as restive and un- 

 manageable, the gentlemen who own them (in many 

 instances) not knowing how to apply the signals, by 

 handling them properly, as the trainer did. And this 

 is not surprising, for how can it be expected that the 

 colt should obey the directions which his rider or dri- 

 ver presumes to give without knowing how, and which, 

 I may say, are sometimes in direct opposition to the 

 signals which his trainer has been for weeks teaching 

 him to obey. 



On the other hand, there are scores of men who have 

 the assurance to style themselves "horse-breakers" who 

 have not the most remote idea of the horse's nature and 

 capacities ; and it is no uncommon thing for them to 

 turn colts out of their hands absolutely confirmed in 

 vice, for the poor animals are so punished, bullied, and 

 bewildered in their hands that they learn to regard man 

 as their natural enemy ; and, in self-defence, they attack 

 all specimens of human kind indiscriminately with their 

 heels or teeth every time they have a chance to do so. 



Many who are prejudiced against Mr. Karey's system 

 of training say "What good is its application to a 

 vicious horse, if he breaks out again ?" and I am free to 

 confess that, whatever any one may say to the con- 

 trary, after one man has applied the system to a vicious 

 horse, he would (although temporarily quiet with him) 

 break out again, and be as vicious as ever with another 

 as also with the operator ; but the same system is at hand 

 to subdue him again and again, until a lasting impression 



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