Professor Sample's Lecture.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 11, 5 July 1883, Page 3

Professor Sample's Lecture.

-♦■ Professor Sample, the celebrated American horse trainer, delivered a free lecture in the Town Hall last night on the management of horses. There was a large attendance and considerable interest was manifested ia the lecture which was delivered by Professor Sample with a clear enunciation and in a very humorous strain. He said the people of New Zealand appeared to take nmch interest in horses, but very few knew how to properly manage them. He had a system of his own, which he was now devoting his time in imparting to others, and any person who took lessons from him could become a3 perfect in the system as himself. His main object was to show the proper and scientiiic way of handling and managing that noblest of all animals, the horse, upon which the lecturer here passed in eloquent terms a very high eulogium. He said many persons professed to manage horses by the use of drugs, and . some thought; he did the same, but he could assure them he used nothing of the kind. The lecturer exposed some of the errors and mistakes of horsekeepers, especially the habit of always saying "wo" to a horse when he was already " woed." A horse, he said, must be both understood and made to understand, and in order to do this, horse language must be used. The lecturer repudiated the prevalent idea that a horse was an intelligent animal. He bad studied the subject for nearly 19 years, devoting his whole time to it, and there was no mystery whatever in the system he promulgated. More people got hurt by horses,- .supposed to be thoroughly broken in. ipd. gentle, than by others. Horses should always be tested before being used. should be put upon them as was the case with, steam boilers. Horses should be handled all OYer.M Some ' were broken in one part, but not in another. A horse was a peculiar animal, and needed to be educated all over. Even one eye might be educated and not the other, and he had proved that a horse might perfectly understand ob oae side, while on the other everyi!MAg.woK.ld be atraage to him. At the close about 20 gentlemen gave in their .names to form ft class for receiving lessona in horsemanship from the Professor at £3 per bead, appointing Mr Morphy their treasurer. The lecturer stated that hi« terms were '" no satisfaction, no pay," ! and to give theJessons before receiving : the fees. The lessons are being given to I the pupils as we 1 go to press. I