RAREY, THE HORSE TAMER.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 591, 3 July 1858, Page 3

RAREY, THE HORSE TAMER.

Mr. Rarey's feats in horse taming have attracted great attention in Paris. A commission was nominated by the Emperor to examine the mode of proceeding, and its report it is said, is most favorable to Mr. Earey. In order to put the system to a vigorous test, it caused to be purchased at Caen, a fcur-year-old horse by

Ripple Cider, noted for its violence and for kicking furiously whenever an attempt was made to put a crupper on it. In the space of four days this horse was as docile with the saddle and in harness as could be. desired, and he allowed a whip to be cracked about his head and a drum to be beaten on his back without any manifestations of fear. Another experiment was made on March 2, on a stallion belonging to the Haras de Cluny, the property of Government, and which was so untameable, so vicious, so furious, in fact, that a resolution had been adopted to kill it. The animal was lent for the purpose by M. de Baylen, chief de la division dcs Haras, in the ministry of agriculture and commerce: and as many as 300 members of the Jockey and other clubs assembled to see what Mr. Rarey could do with him. In company with this, which arrived with a oavez on, and muzzled', and led by two men, Mr. Rarey fastened himself up in a stall, and in an hour afterwards he came out mounted on its back. Although the horse had always previously bitten the legs of every one who mounted him, he was then°perfectly quiet, and though the very sight of a whip was accustomed to set him in a fury, he received a correction as quietly as the best broken-in horse would have done. Mr. Earey then requested to be allowed to keep the horse ;for three days, promising at the conclusion of ;that time to give him up as quiet as any lady's horse: and his application was readily granted. The ' Boston Journal' has some remarks on Mr. Rarey's system of horse taming :— '' We saw Mr. Rarey some two years since, and had a long and interesting conversation with him in regard to his peculiar mode of subduing wild and vicious horses. He represented .that his power was obtained solely through certain herbs and drugs, first subduing the desire of the horse to injure him, and then by inspiring the beast with affection and confidence, he is able to do whatever he chooses with him. These herbs and drugs are perfectly harmless, and as Sir Richard Airey says,' there is nothing in the treatment but what any horseman would approve of.' "

The horse castor is a wert or excrescence which grows on every horse's fore legs, and generally on the hind legs. It has a peculiar rank, musty smell, and is easily pulled off. The ammoniacal effluvium of the horse, it is stated, seems peculiarly to concentrate in this part, and its very strong odour has a great attraction for all animals, especially canine, and the horse itself. The oil of Rhodium possesses peculiar properties; all animals are said to cherish a fondness for it, it exercises a kind of subduing influence over them. For the oil of cumin the horse has an instinctive passion : both are-origi-nal natives of Arabia, and when the horse scents the odour he is instinctively drawn towards it. Mr. James Teifer, " the Northumberland Horse Tamer," says he can tame the most vicious horse - without using any drug whatever.