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“ Cruiser has been vicious from a foal, always troublesome to handle 
(we are using his owner’s language), and showing temper on every 
opportunity. He would kneel in the street, and tear the ground with 
his teeth in his paroxysms of rage. — He would lean against the wall of 
his box, and kick and scream for ten minutes together ; and he was re- 
turned from stables in which he had been placed, because his savage 
propensities rendered the care of him too dangerous an office for anv 
man. For days, he would allow no one to enter his box ; and on one 
occasion, tore an iron bar, one inch thick, in two with his teeth. Such 
an animal was not a very promising subject to operate upon ; but Mr. 
Rarey undertook his cure. He first subjugated a two-year-old Alley 
perfectly unbroken, in half an hour — riding her — opening an umbrella, 
beating a drum upon her, &c. He then took Cruiser in hand, and, 
says Lord Dorchester, ‘in three hours, Mr. Rarey and myself mounted 
him.’ He had not been ridden for nearly three years, and was so vicious 
that it was impossible even to dress him ; and it was necessary to keep 
him muzzled constantly. The following morning Mr. Rarey led him 
behind an open carriage, on his way to London.” 
Twice the creature flew at the tamer with a fierce cry, but he kept 
out of his reach behind a half-door ; at last he grew a little kinder, and 
Mr. Rarey succeeded in tying his head to the rack. This sense of 
restraint, which he had not known for three years, maddened the horse, 
the blood-vessels of the head dilated, and his frenzy for nearly twenty 
minutes was such, that Lord Dorchester begged Mr. Rarey not to peril 
his life, and to think no more of the £100 bond, which he had given, 
to return him cured in three months. However, America was not daunt- 
ed; and when the horse was slightly exhausted, he made his first effort, 
and by the end of three hours the evil spirit seemed to have departed. 
On the Monday following, Mr. Rarey opened his school. The “incura- 
bly savage” horse was there, and was gentle as a dove, before an audi- 
ence of full three hundred ; all of whom had heard of his vicious pro- 
pensities. Yon could have heard a pin drop, when the American horse- 
tamer asked his four-legged pupil to shake hands with him, at the termi- 
nation of a lecture, listened to with intense interest, by an exalted and 
delighted assembly of the noblest and fairest in the land. The Wed- 
nesday after Mr. Rarey ride the horse about London. 
PRINCIPLES OF THE RARE! SV STE ill. — “ First - — That the horse is so 
constituted by nature that lie will not offer resistance to any demand 
made of him which he fully comprehends, if made in a way consistent 
with the laws of his nature. Second — That he has no consciousness of 
his strength beyond his experience, and can be handled according to 
onf will without force. Third — That we can, in compliance with the 
laws of his nature, by which he examines all things new to him, take 
any object, however frightful, around, over, or on him, that does not in- 
flict pain, without causing him to fear.” 
The affectionate enthusiasm with which the horse is spoken of by Mr. 
Rarey in the paragraph annexed, copied from his work, would also seem 
to indicate that any thing but harsh means are used in his subjection. 
Mr. Rarey says : 
“The horse, according to the best accounts we can gather, has been 
