374 SUBJECTION. 



it would insure considerable success in the control of some 

 horses, it would utterly fail upon others. I was led to be- 

 lieve that possibly there might be some secret about the 

 treatment that I did not understand. To satisfy myself 

 upon this point, I had a great desire to see Mr. Rarey him- 

 self explain and illustrate it. This I was finally able to 

 do in Pittsburg, Pa., in the early summer of 1865, when 

 he gave a series of exhibitions there. I exhibited there 



FIG. 262. The method as now used, giving all the power desired to throw 

 any horse with ease, and without danger. 



the week before, and remained over to see him. His ap- 

 plication of treatment was precisely what I had long un- 

 derstood and practiced. 



I next desired to see Cruiser, and study the peculiari- 

 ties of his disposition. In 1868, when in Columbus, Ohio, 

 and neighboring towns, I had an opportunity of submitting 

 several of his colts to treatment. Two of them were con- 

 idered entirely unmanageable, having resisted all efforts to 



