232 Modern Riding and Horse Education 



use abroad. Bourgelat, whose prestige and in- 

 fluence carried great weight in the horse world, 

 would have none of them, asserting that the rider's 

 legs were the best pillars. 



The Single Pillar, much favored by the first 

 Duke of Newcastle, was employed for the same 

 purposes as the double pillars, but according to his- 

 tory it was never popular, as it only served to 

 fatigue and harass the horse. In Australia they tie 

 the freshly-caught horse to a tree with tackle he 

 cannot break, as his first lesson in submission, and 

 the single pillar was used for a like end. In Amer- 

 ica it is well named the " snubbing post." 



The Rarey Strap. — Rarey, a farmer from 

 Ohio, came to England in 1856 to give practical 

 demonstrations of his new method of taming and 

 training horses. Subscribers anxious to know his 

 secret and to be shown his appliances presented him 

 with over £15,000. He had come to tell them how 

 to strap a horse's leg up and throw him. The secre- 

 tary of the first subscription list naively remarked 

 that Rarey had reinvented what was known some 

 fifty years before, and he might have added, some 

 hundreds of years ago. Amongst others, Mr. Browne 



