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lads how to ride. In this country, we dare not take such 

 liberties. After Poona, my success in India was com- 

 plete. During a twelve months' tour, I held large classes 

 in almost every station from Peshawur to Trichinopoly, and 

 from Quetta to Mandalay, and taught the officers of nearly 

 every regiment and battery. Naturally, my most enthusiastic 

 pupils belonged to horse and field batteries, and to English 

 and Native cavalry regiments. Although there are some 

 fine exceptions, which it would be invidious to particularise, 

 infantry officers of the present day do not ' go in ' for horses 

 as keenly as those of former times, who had more money 

 to spend and less duty to perform. On leaving Poona, I 

 went to Trimulgherry where I was a guest of Colonel Morton 

 and the officers of the 14th Hussars, who, with the other 

 officers took a great interest in the horsebreaking work 

 which I showed them. The most of the ten days which I 

 stayed at Trimulgherry, was spent in the 14th Hussar riding- 

 school, where we had in all the unbroken and spoiled horses 

 we could find. On leaving, Colonel Morton and the officers 

 of the 14th Hussars and several officers of the 3rd Madras 

 Cavalry and Hyderabad Contingent gave me a very flattering 

 testimonial about the soundness of my work. 



The following kind expression of opinion given to me 

 by Colonel Cooke and the officers of the 17th Lancers, and 

 other members of my Lucknow class, will afford an idea of 

 the sort of horses I had to take in hand. 



'We, the undersigned, wish to place on record our appreciation of 

 Captain M. H. Hayes' methods of breaking horses of all kinds. The 

 methods are various, and are applicable to all sorts of unbroken or 

 refractory horses : most simple in application, and thoroughly efficacious. 

 Some of the subjects submitted to Captain Hayes to test his methods 

 were as follows :• — 



' A chestnut Waler of E-A., R. H. A., would not allow itself to be 

 mounted, being most violent if mounting it were attempted, in a short 

 time allowed anyone to mount and dismount. 



'An unbroken remount and bad buck-jumper of 17th Lancers, in the 



