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“I have witnessed Mr. Rarey’s treatment on two horses belonging to 
me this day, March 17th, and have pleasure in stating that his success was 
complete, and most astonishing to me, who know the individual animals, and 
" to my friends who were present. It is hardly necessary to mention that 
Mr. Rarey derived no assistance from, the chy mist's shop.” 
The concluding sentence of this letter, which we have put 
into italics, is not so expressive as a negative of the employ- 
ment of materials, animal or vegetable, as adjuvants to Mr. 
Rarey ’s proceedings, as it might have been, but we cannot 
imagine that His Grace intended to mislead by ambiguity of 
language. 
Langworthy, Veterinary Surgeon to Her Majesty, 
says, in a letter to the ‘ Times/ that, 
** Having been made acquainted by Mr. Rarey with his method of subju- 
gating and training the horse, and having witnessed the entire subjugation 
of four powerful and irritable horses belonging to the royal stables, each near 
seventeen hands high, I am enabled to certify that neither stupefaction by 
inhalation, nor narcotic nor any mesmeric influences were resorted to, the 
means used being knowledge skilfully applied, and the result — perfect con- 
trol over the animal. I have also seen the more advanced state of Mr. 
Rarey’s system. It was exhibited on a black horse, who had gained for 
himself the unenviable distinction of being a c vicious brute ’ — now certainly 
a rare specimen of obedieuce and submission ; indeed, if one could attempt 
to analyse his feelings, you would imagine that he felt his sagacity had been 
appealed to, and he found it expedient to respond to the appeal ; that he 
felt he was conquered, and resistance useless ; but, more than all, that he 
felt and knew he had not been injured, hence the fondness, the docility, and, 
I might almost say, an evident desire to please and be instructed by his very 
able tutor. Believing the first step towards education is the submission of 
your pupil, whether biped or quadruped, and that Mr. Rarey’s method is so 
excellent and so applicable for gaining that step with young horses, I think 
that were it known and adopted the annoyance of a restive and irritable horse 
would be seldom met with.” 
Mr. W. J. Goodwin, who lately held the same appoint- 
ment as Mr. Langworthy, also repudiates the use of drugs. 
In a letter to 4 B elks Life/ Mr. Goodwin, after directing 
attention to Sullivan, the celebrated Irish whisperer, as 
possessing a power not surpassed by Mr. Rarey, and to 
whom we shall hereafter more particularly allude, concludes 
his communication by remarking that, 
“ In my time I have known many unmanageable horses tamed at Astley’s, 
and brought to perform feats upon the stage. I have also seen many horses 
