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First. A fourteen-year old horse, owned by Mr. L. C. Popham, of 

 945 Broadway, would kick and run away, and could not be controlled 

 or driven in harness. 



Second. A twelve-year old thorough-bred horse from Red Bank, 

 "N. J., owned by H. L. Herbert, would balk under saddle and kick 

 in harness, and had resisted all efforts to be controlled or driven in 

 harness. 



Third. A star mare, owned by R. L. Pell, Esq., of Fifth avenue and 

 Twenty-sixty street, would kick and run away in single harness, and 

 could not be driven single. 



These with several other horses were subjected to treatment in our 

 presence with the following results : 



In eighteen minutes (without throwing or any cruelty), he made the 

 Popham mare so docile that she could be driven with the greatest 

 freedom without breeching, demonstrating the most wonderful change 

 in her character. The Herbert horse was driven with equal success 

 in twenty-seven minutes, submitting to all kinds of handling, even 

 from strangers. 



Mr. Herbert stated that he had owned that beast, having once paid 

 $2,500 for him, but finding him so obstinate and unmanageable under 

 the saddle and before a sulky, that he actually sold him for fifty cents. 

 After which he bought him again for twenty-five dollars ; and that he 

 did not believe it possible for any human skill to render that horse 

 at all manageable. 



The Pell horse was next handled and driven gently in ten minutes, 

 and all the others with the same marked success. 



Mr. Magner's system of subduing and educating horses is in prin- 

 ciple entirely different from that of Rarey, or any other treatment we 

 have witnessed. 



It is remarkably simple ; not requiring the use of anything compli- 

 cated. A noticeable feature was that any of the horses experimented 

 upon were not in the least excited or warmed. 



There was present a number of the most critical horsemen of the 

 city, and the universal verdict of all was that the results shown were 

 in the extreme surprising, and that a knowledge of Mr. Manger's 

 treatment is indispensable to all who are interested in or use horses, 

 and that his humane efforts to introduce reform in the education of 

 horses cannot be commended too highly. 



We have studied the merits of Mr. Magner's system of treating 

 horses with an honest regard to the true interests of the public, and 

 have no hesitation in stating that it is as important in its way to the 



