The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . onable from danger of pulling the horse over backward, &c. Details explained farther on. See page 506 in Personal Experience. forward indorsements from Henry Clay, Daniel Webster,and other men of national reputation, showing that he (Fan-cher) practiced the same method
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . onable from danger of pulling the horse over backward, &c. Details explained farther on. See page 506 in Personal Experience. 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 jDoint, I had a great desire to see Mr. Rarey him-self explain and illustrate it. This I Avas 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 throw-any 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-idered entirely unmanageable, having resisted all efforts to HISTOEICAL FACTS. 375 break them. One, an eight-year-old colt, belonging to SquireWest, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio (a point twelve miles so
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