18 INTRODUCTION. 



place, it is not true that Cruiser was not taken from his stable for 

 three years, and that he would have been shot, etc., which is 

 proved by the fact that he was let for breeding purposes at a 

 rental of $500 per season, and was taken out almost daily, and 

 controlled with but little real difficulty. He never was pulled up 

 from the ground to have a collar put on him, nor did he ever wear 

 an iron muzzle. Also, instead of going into his stable as stated, 

 and controlling him so easily and successfully, the experiment 

 was a failure. His control was owing entirely to Mr. Goodenough's 

 management, and by a method of treatment which, had it been 

 known at the time, would have utterly destroyed Rarey's reputa- 

 tion or claims to success; hence the claim set up for his unusual 

 inherent power, and for the system as being a perfect and com- 

 plete method of subjection, falls to the ground. 



The additional fact that Cruiser and the other cases, when out 

 of Rarey's hands, returned to their former vicious practices, and 

 again became unmanageable, also demonstrates the fallacy of 

 these claims, and proves conclusively that the horses were not 

 subdued, except to a condition of temporary obedience, the ruling 

 principle of which was fear. It is also apparent that the assump- 

 tion of knowing a horse's every thought, and being able to subdue 

 any horse or animal in the world, amounts to nothing, because, 

 like the other pretensions, it was all assumed for effect. What he 

 practiced, he learned of Denton Offutt, from whose book an inter- 

 esting chapter will be found on pages 449 to 456. The writer vis- 

 ited professionally every town in the vicinity of Groveport, Rar- 

 ey's old home, and although he made the most diligent inquiry of 

 old settlers, he found no one who claimed for Mr. Rarey any no- 

 ticeable success in the control of horses, before going to Europe. 



The true key, which has been overlooked by Mr. Devens, and 

 in fact all other writers on the subject, was the consummate good 

 management exhibited by Mr. Goodenough, by which, as the first 

 movement on reaching England, permission was secured to exhibit 

 before the queen and the royal family, even before they had dem- 

 onstrated a right to such distinction. Their continued success in 

 maintaining their hold upon the public opinion, was also due to 

 the adroitness of Mr. G. in surmounting the difficulties which 

 arose, and which so firmly established their claims in the public 

 mind as to require, even at the present day, the most positive 

 proofs to show their unreliability. 



