HORSE TRAINING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1434, 19 July 1883, Page 2

HORSE TRAINING.

! All intereßted'in' the-'moßt noble and useful of animals will, welcomd -the advent ,to this, district; of Professor Hi Sample, the celebrated American horseman, who is announced to lecture at on Monday the 23rd.July. a| Grey fownj and OartertohjOn ppsfyty and Wednesday 24th and 25th, and at the Theatre Boyal, Masterton, on Thursday, the 26th inst. Admission to the lecture will be free, and in this district, which has already made a name

for producing really useful horses in large numbers, a full house should be. a certainty. Professor Sample not only makes a horse do any tiling he wishes, but judging from the reports from places where he has held classes and given lectures,, he can. toaoLany other .person to do so. read an 'unsolicited testimonial signed by a class of 42 pupils at Auckland,' "which contains .-the ..following reasons for its presentation: —" Ist. Any man, no . matter how inexperienced) lis* may be can train his own 'horses,' after taking lessons from-yon, 2nd. After being trained, they are perfectly quiet and docile, andean be handled in any Sjft*\..'/ 3rd Your system >is the most hJBB*we hayeever Boen,/and/in]thJßorst cases' you have l tried uf our fireMEfton horses of the most vicious disposition, you failed .-.to subdue and • makeHhem 1 perfectly quiet." Our con.temporaries, the .Herald, the ■ Evening.Star,and'the Thames Advocate, all speak-in l ' high' terms 1 - of Professor Samp^'g'sysiem, doubt imany-of our ''readers l ; have seen the flattering accounts , of, hisj, Wellington lessons in the papers published in that city.'Tho following-extract/from the WaikafaTimespublishedafrCambridge, where he had a class of 44 pupils will prove of interest .ai/an example of his power:—Professor Sample lectured to a crowded audience in the Oddfellows Hallj Cambridge, on Friday night, and met a' class of >44! pupils- at Messrs 'Hunter's premises' on Satm/day lasi,and ior four ano!. ; a their attention thoroughly engaged. The exhibitions of ppw,er, possessed by the Professor over the'animais under his treatment wero certainly wonderful, and the:most wonderful wart, was the extreme' simplicity of some 01' the means employed. Aaone'gehtleman remarked "ho could have knocked his head against 1 a'post for not thinking of it before," A horse belonging to Mr John Broivn, which,had ! beeii intractable, and'had been running free for 18 months, was driven in, and in half an hour the Professor had a man riding it, standing on its back, and afterwards suspendeq'a'pble; to/its coJlaTr, trailing on- the ground between itsHegs, and having tied two kerosene tins to its tail, drove it' about; without trouble. Mr Brown afterwards rode the horse home. A.mare,owried'byiMrßattsin, which had a bad habit.of hanging back, after a few 'minutes/tr'patiii'ent by the professor was Wfarcured|bat although Mr Alwill flapped hisimackintosh in her face, and the professor kept dashing a long'pole' to her uevor attempted to run ; baclc, but.lather ran forward. Many' gentlemen i declared that' they would' ■ not'fpi ! ''.iso have missed learning whatlP'rofefc Sample haditaught them, ; and Inpijipjibt if he pays a second i visit' to in Cambridge numbers will go to see' him- who were absent on Saturday.' l! " 1,l!n!