. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . tionablefrom danger of pulling the horse over backward, &c. Details explained farther on. See page 506 in Personal Experience. l forward indorsements from Henry Clay, Daniel Webster,and other men of national reputation, showing that he (Fan-cher) practiced the same method as early as 1844, whichwas long before Rarey was known. I had tried the treatment upon all sorts of horses, andhad studied with close attention the effect it would produceupon horses of different temperaments and habits. While *See note on page 384, 374 SUBJECTION. it would ins
. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . tionablefrom danger of pulling the horse over backward, &c. Details explained farther on. See page 506 in Personal Experience. l forward indorsements from Henry Clay, Daniel Webster,and other men of national reputation, showing that he (Fan-cher) practiced the same method as early as 1844, whichwas long before Rarey was known. I had tried the treatment upon all sorts of horses, andhad studied with close attention the effect it would produceupon horses of different temperaments and habits. While *See note on page 384, 374 SUBJECTION. it would insure considerable success in the control of somehorses, it would utterly fail upon others. I was led to be-lieve that possibly there might be some secret about thetreatment that I did not understand. To satisfy myselfupon this point, I had a great desire to see Mr. Rarey him-self explain and illustrate it. This I was finally able todo in Pittsburg, Pa., in the early summer of 1865, whenhe gave a series of exhibitions there. I exhibited there. Fig. 262.—The method as now used, giving all the power desired to throwany horse with ease, and without danger. the week before, and remained over to see him. His ap-plication of treatment was precisely what I had long un-derstood and practiced. I next desired to see Cruiser, and study the peculiari-ties of his disposition. In 1868, when in Columbus, Ohio,and neighboring towns, I had an opportunity of submittingseveral of his colts to treatment. Two of them were con-sidered entirely unmanageable, having resisted all efforts to HISTOBICAL FACTS. 375 break them. One, an eight-year-old colt, belonging to SquireWest, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio (a point twelve miles south ofColumbus, on the pike), was especially vicious. This coltsubmitted to my treatment perfectly in less than an now went to Grroveport to see Cruiser, and spent twohours studying him as he stood in his paddock. I foundhim a medium-sized, fine-grained horse. His head was well
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