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hand and he doth set his trot comely and stately, you 

 may venture to set a saddle on him." 



Lord Pembroke, Sir Sidney Medows, Freeman, 

 and Adams, all practised long-rein driving in vari- 

 ous ways, and wrote about it in the latter part of 

 the eighteenth and early in the nineteenth centuries, 

 yet Galvayne and Hayes w^ere both able to tour the 

 country and make a financial success of exhibiting the 

 practice as new in the latter half of the nineteenth. 



About twenty years after Hayes's demonstrations 

 of long-rein driving on his horse-breaking tours, his 

 methods w^ere embodied in the English Cavalry 

 Training Manual. The appliance is now in general 

 use at Netheravon ; at the Woolwich Riding Estab- 

 lishment it is employed for horses which cannot be 

 backed or are refractory, and sometimes for teach- 

 ing jumping, but every riding instructor is taught 

 how to handle the reins. I understand that the 

 Messrs. Miller have very generally discarded them. 



According to Berenger this appliance was well- 

 known on the Continent at a much earlier period 

 than the eighteenth century, but it is not used abroad 

 now, nor has it been for some considerable time. 



As foreigners look upon horse-training as more 



