The Horse Tamer

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 82, 15 January 1889, Page 3

The Horse Tamer

On Saturday night Professor Hickton •gave an exhibition of his skill in Mr Daw's stables. The attendance was very fail* And the audience took great interest in the uroceedings. The Professor first took in hand an aged mare which had hitherto successfully defied the attempts of all ordinary breakers to make anything of her We will not attempt to describe the modus operandi, but will merely say that in a few minutes with the assistance of a riding switch, on which was tied, flag fashion, an ordinary silk pocket handkerchief, and a piece of rope about the thickness of an ordinary clotheshne, he had the mare lying on her side completely subdued. Three young lads were placed on her back, and she submitted, to all sorts of liberties bein" taken with her. When the mare W as tying down the Professor placed himself between her hmd and fore legs— a position of considerable risk considering the vice of the brute. Although quelled after a fashion, we noticed that she kicked with all her wonted fluency when she appeared in the arena a second time. Nothin" will cure the brute of that habit exeot a bullet. The next patient was a fine upstanding two-year-old colt by Diomedei and although he made very plucky "ffforts to retain his hberty they availed him nothing, and he had to submit to the Uof the master. In neither instance did we notice the slightest sign of cruelty «. illusa^e. The powers of a strong will anda strong arm were all that were ex- • A.A o«A if we may be permitted to offer ropn^nwe "shoul! sa/that the Professor has no superior and few equals as a horse * nT " pr -