. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. rnrNCiPLEs of treatment. 43 The secret of the first horse-tamer of whom I have any account—Dick Christian of England — consisted simply in tying up thefore leg, and then mounting and riding the horse until next step in this direction was disabling both fore legs, and thusforcing the horse to lie down, which carried this principle to agreater degree of perfection. This was regarded a very rare secret,and was the basis of the methods practiced by Bull in England, Sul-livan i
. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. rnrNCiPLEs of treatment. 43 The secret of the first horse-tamer of whom I have any account—Dick Christian of England — consisted simply in tying up thefore leg, and then mounting and riding the horse until next step in this direction was disabling both fore legs, and thusforcing the horse to lie down, which carried this principle to agreater degree of perfection. This was regarded a very rare secret,and was the basis of the methods practiced by Bull in England, Sul-livan in Mallow, Ireland, Denton Offutt in Kentucky, and O. H. in Ohio, who were the first, most pretentious, and noted,before the advent of Rarey, who learned the secret of Denton Offutt,. Fig. .57.—An Incident in the Driving of a Noted Runaway Horse. at the time a resident of Georgetown, Ky. This was the sole andonly secret upon which were based Rareys most extraordinary pre-tensions, and for teaching which he made $100,000 in England ; andprobably much more than that was paid in this country for the sameknowledge. I may add, by wa} of explanation, that the control of Cruiserand other noted cases in England and France, upon which his repu-tation was based, although it was assumed to be, was not and couldnot have been accomplished by this treatment. Those interestedin a full explanation of all the facts in regard to it, will find the de-tails in the chapter on Subjection in my work, Facts for Horse-Owners. 44 miXCTPLES OF TREATMEXT. Various remedies have also been assumed to be used for taminghorses under the pretense of a great secret, or the guise of fascina-tion, on the principle of using certain scents for attracting and con-trolling certain wild animals or fishes
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