Foreword 



willingly co-operates with you, everything, no 

 matter how difficult, is made quite easy of 

 accompHshment. " It's the way he has wid 

 them " was said of a sunny-hearted Irish 

 horse-breaker of my acquaintance, whose 

 horses loved him and did anything he wanted 

 of them. Try the sunny -hearted way — it's 

 the right one. 



The system of slow and gradual training, as 

 described in this book, is set out at length to 

 enable any man or woman, without expert 

 knowledge, to undertake the training of horses 

 for their own use, or for sale. For their per- 

 sonal service they would be anxious, no doubt, 

 to make them the most perfect companions 

 possible, and would be wilHng to devote con- 

 siderable time to secure the very best results. 

 To those who have sufficient leisure, I advise 

 the very gradual training I have described 

 as being well worth while ; for a horse so trained 

 can be ridden or driven by anybody, and 

 becomes the most perfect companion and 

 comrade conceivable. But it is not possible 

 for everyone, particularly those in charge of 

 large horse-runs and ranches who have to 

 handle very large numbers of horses, to expend 

 so much time on individual animals; and it 

 may be well for it to be known that the system 

 can be very much speeded up, the more so, 

 if the training is confined just to essentials. 

 The following are instances. At Secunderabad, 



