THE NEW SYSTEM OF EDUCATING HORSES. 



THERE have been so many who have travelled in the 

 business of late years, who have claimed to be authors of 

 a new system, &c., that a few words of explanation, in re- 

 lation to the part I have taken and of my success in this 

 field, become necessary as a matter of duty and justice 

 to myself and the public. 



I have now been before the public over eighteen years, 

 employed in imparting a knowledge of such principles of 

 educating and managing horses as I found to be most 

 simple and practical. I claimed and advertised a NEW 

 SYSTEM from the start. In the winter of 1863-64 I wrote 

 and published in Utica, N.Y., at " The Herald " office, an 

 exposition of my treatment, called "The New System," 

 copyrighting the same under that title. 



Some time afterwards I sold to Mr. A. H. Rockwell, for 

 three hundred dollars, the right to republish this work 

 under his own name, a copy of the contract of sale of 

 which I have still in my possession. 



Mr. Rockwell, in the revision of this book, implied 

 having taught me, of having trained the horse I then 

 owned, &c. ; when the fact was, I was over a year on the 

 road before I met or heard of him. I had trained and 

 exhibited this horse nearly two years before he saw him, 

 and was in no way connected with him except in this 

 business transaction. 



I also gave a gentleman named R. P. Hamilton the 

 privilege of republishing one of the earlier editions of my 

 book, which he did under his own name, a copy of which 

 edition I have in my possession. 



In March, 1868, I started a resident of Batavia, N.Y., 

 named O. S. Pratt, in the business, selling him two trained 

 horses one of them a gray trick-pony called Billy 

 and a fancy advertising wagon. At the same time I sold 

 another gray trick-pony, named Tommy, to a gentleman 



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