New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-05-30
THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER.
MIR. RAREYS SECOND EXHIBITION.

MIR. RAREYS SECOND EXHIBITION.
This entertainment last evening, drew to the
Cooper Institute, larger audience than that which
attended the first. There will, we would remark,
be two exhibitions; one tonight and the other
on Saturday afternoon
The address and courage Of Mr. Rarey, it seemed
to us, were all the more apparent, from the con-
tracted space in which be has to act. The staging at
the south end Of the hail. fenced and roped Off for
the work, does not exceed forty feet in length by
twenty in depth. In this contracted arena, Mr..
Rarey performs his marvellous work. What is de-
serving of note too il the absence of all jockey, flash
air about him. lie would pass for a mild lecturer
on organic chemistry or a polite deliver into the
aesthetic phenomena Of the middle ages. In the
whirl of rapdity and of all-imgending perils in
which he cieces he does not find it necessary even
TO take oil his trock coat; in word. he has all the
simplicity and serenity Of the perfect artist, who
comprehends laws. and deals them out amid all the
rush and fever Of details with appropriate calmness
IL Is great fact in the history of the two most
prominent actors in the race of conquest ard ciyii
cation, the horse and his nder to lind that all the
traditional modes Of dealing with the former are re-
versed and annihilated. No whip, no spur no in.
patience anger or cruelty is necessary in the horse
heaven which Mr.. Rarey has opened
Last evening for example, there was horse INTRO
duced for his second lesson in ca mness and good be-
havior The progress was too evident, to offer the
rousing ze,t Of tanning which the public expect.
Then came smother steed, which wss all vicousness
which had tossed riders, and aiirighted stabe-boys
But with nothing bat birdie and strap was he
I subdued.
The operation required but few minutes. The
horses head was turned round on one side persist
emily lie was made to perform some pivotal circular
movements 10 arrest plugging and Kicking. He WAS
made to feel that be was uuder the hands Of mas
1 hut hF md In Ia.
while the leg Of the animal wss lifted with s.rog-
gle; the strap placed round the knee the horse
Is on three legs unable TO rum and is placed on a
rapid road to reform accordingly. Then another leg
was strapped up. The animal resisted in all manner
Of ways, of course; but the activity, daring, and
quiCkneis Of Mr.. Rarey were an oyer-match. The
horse pat'ed over.
So sensible Il tie snimal to the snbdring hand,
that Mr. Rarey said horse may be tame on ore
side and Wild another: hence the necessity for
general manipulation. When the horse Is down the
legs are s,rokcd-and the kicks gradually and rap.
idly subside into quiescence and then tae eye OF
the muster detects that tie rect - complete and h.
puts tue hoof trucuent and murdorous a minute be
fore to bis head pats b. he ad between the hoof
Tho idea Of kicking against authority having passed
/ from " the horses mind. assault aud battery be-
cone Impossible to hin. In proportion az the horse j.
strenuous and stubborn. nutl he be oyerthrown again
end again. Dr. Rarey Gays lie never Injured hor.e
by tins means.
A second vicious horse, the owner Of which had
offered s2j 10 any one who would bride bin 10 the
ordinary way, wins introduced and after gallant
resistance was subducd--so thoroughly that he re-
fused to rise at first, after the straps were removed
from his legs. Both thcse nYlmas were large and
powerful, aud exhibited the necessary points to
prove. first how falsely they bad been treated; and
secondly, how ber eiceDt the new discipline.
We never saw TN exhibition at which such I'M
qualified satisfaction was shown. Public things
which appeal to taste OF Judgment excite grades q
praise, il they escape disrnise. Bat here 10 some
thing which is not mechanical and yet IL eyokes but
one opinion. 1t is not es- valuable for ts merciinl
traits than for the vast economies which aieud II.
Sir. Rarey has gained name which will endure in
history while nan ridep drives the horse.