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Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 40, 7 October 1867, Page 3

How to cure a .Timing Horse is stated by a correspondent of the Argus, who signs himself “ Pegasus." The narrator is a Melbourne Cabby, who commenced by giving an account of how- he was on the road to the diggings years ago, with a heavy load and three horses in the team; how one of the beggars turned out a jibber in the most difficult part of the road, how he flogged him to no purpose, eow he tied him behind to see if he could get on without him, how the thought came into his head to light a fire and boil some •taters in a billy, and to place one hot under the jibbers tail; how he did so, and how the horse took to his collar from that time, and never jibbed again. “ But mind," said Cabby, “it warn’t worry safe to go near his 'eels arter that; he'd be sure to let drive at ye; but a more willing beast I never saw arter. One trial cured hint and he never jibbed once again. I got .£5 on the road to the diggings curing a man’s horse this way. The man was out of all patience with the horse. He had broken his whip and stick over him, and I came up just as he was going to make a fire all round the brute. I asked him what he was about. ‘ Just going to see if fire won’t make him go.’ ‘Nonsense,’ says I, “ leave him to me. I’ll make him go. Fire’s no good, and beating’s no good,’ So he bets me £5 as I couldn't do it, and says I might hold the fiiraises, which I did. What did I do but just put on the billy, with a tater, and when done, applies it as before—behind. No mistake about it; he went ahead like a lamplighter, and I won the £5. I’ve seen that man lately, and what did he say ? why, that £5 he lost to me has been a fortune to him. It’s curious these jibbers arc generally the best horses,"