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Nearly all my scholars of late years understood and practiced 

 this method of treatment, and I was compelled, as a condition of 

 satisfying them, to prove the superiority of my treatment. Then 

 nearly every vicious horse brought forward to be experimented 

 upon had been subjected in the most thorough manner to the 

 method of treatment used by Rarey. The Wilkins horse of New 

 York, case G, Subjection; the Malone horse, case 2, Kicking; the 

 stallion Jet, case 7, Subjection; with many others, though com- 

 prising but few of the large number treated, were good illustra- 

 tions. The Wilkins horse was treated for a week on this principle 

 without doing any good whatever. He had been treated so much 

 that the moment his foot was taken up he would lie down appar- 

 ently gentle, but when again upon his feet, would become thor- 

 oughly wicked again. The Malone horse had been subjected to 

 it in the most thorough manner without avail. In the case of 

 Jet, which was a particularly bad one, the treatment was equally 

 inert, and had no effect at all upon him. The same might be 

 said of hundreds of others treated by me before my classes, or 

 as special tests in the presence of experts, The quickness and 

 complete success of the experiments, in these and other noted 

 cases, are results which are conceded to have been shown by no 

 one else in so short a time in the control of vicious horses, either 

 in ancient or modern times. 



A feat that I performed almost daily, and which would have 

 been utterly impossible to accomplish by the Rarey treatment, was 

 the subjection of headstrong, unmanageable stallions, so that they 

 would not only follow any one without restraint but, at a distance 

 of ten feet, could be called away from a horse or mare. This appar- 

 ently impossible feat I guaranteed to perform within ten minutes, 

 with a forfeiture of one hundred dollars to the owner in case of 

 failure. It is proper to add here that during the last few years, most 

 of the experiments made before my classes were in part or wholly 

 performed by my assistant. Not only this, but my scholars could 

 readily do the same, and very many of the cases were fully as 

 difficult to manage as those referred to. 



