Horses And Hounds: A Practical Treatise On Their Management
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The art of taming horses: with the substance of the lectures at the Round House
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John Solomon Rarey was a nineteenth-century horse tamer.
Background
John Solomon Rarey was born on December 6, 1827 at Groveport, Ohio, the son of Adam and Mary Catherine (Pontius) Rarey. His father, at one time an innkeeper, reared horses, and the son in early youth began to study humane methods of breaking and training them, apparently based on the traditional methods of the Arabs, of whose horsemanship he was a lifelong admirer.
Education
He had studied with Denton Offutt, a noted horse tamer of Georgetown, Kentucky, who practised the methods of the Arabs and advocated them in his book, The Educated Horse, published in 1854.
He had little schooling, his whole life having been devoted to horses, yet reading and association had given him the presence of an educated and cultivated man.
Career
The stubborn or vicious subject he first rendered powerless by means of leg straps and hobbles, then brought him gently to his knees, and finally to a prostrate position, where the animal was allowed to remain until he gave the signal of surrender. He was then liberated by degrees and encouraged by a pat of the hand or an approving word, but again rendered helpless at the first sign of disobedience.
Rarey's methods were for the most part merely an improvement upon those of earlier horse tamers, but more than his methods, it was his indomitable courage, iron nerve, rare patience and self-control, and seemingly intuitive knowledge of the character of every horse coming before him that enabled him to achieve results which astonished the world and which none of his thousands of pupils could approach. Before he was twelve years old Rarey had shown that he could coax wild colts in pasture to come up and let him put halters on them. This gift of horsemanship gave him more than a neighborhood reputation in boyhood, but it was not until he was past twenty-five that he began giving lessons for a fee and, later, selling at Ohio fairs The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses (1856), a little book of instructions he had written explaining his system.
With R. A. Goodenough, of Toronto, Canada, as his manager, Rarey went to England late in 1857. When arrangements were made for an exhibition before Queen Victoria and the royal family at Windsor Castle fame and fortune came to him almost overnight. The Queen and Prince Consort headed a class of more than a thousand men and women who paid ten guineas each for instruction.
From his London triumphs Rarey went to France, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Norway, Egypt, Turkey, and Arabia, everywhere receiving the same marked attention and achieving the same uninterrupted success. P. T. Barnum, then in Europe, had an interest in his earnings, and, it is believed, planned the Rarey tour along the same lines that a few years before had reaped a fortune for Jenny Lind and for himself in America. Rarey returned to the United States in 1860, bringing with him the English thoroughbred stallion Cruiser, notorious as an equine maniac before the American horseman, in response to a public challenge in London, broke his spirit by leaving him all night alone in a stable with his forelegs tied up and his hind legs drawn up and tied to a collar which had been put over his head (Turf, Field and Farm, July 13, 1883).
Rarey's exhibitions were continued in America until his health began to decline in 1862.
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Views
Quotations:
"The horse must be convinced by humane treatment and undeviating firmness that man is his natural master. "
Personality
In appearance Rarey resembled a clergyman rather than a typical professional horseman. He was of medium height and weight, wiry and active rather than muscular, with complexion almost effeminately fair, and frank, unaffected manners.
Quotes from others about the person
Nicholas Evans writes:
"Against all advice, Rarey let himself into the stable where no one else dared venture and shut the door. He emerged three hours later leading Cruiser, without his muzzle and gentle as a lamb. The owners were so impressed they gave him the horse. Rarey brought him back to Ohio, where Cruiser died on July 6, 1875, outliving his new master by a full nine years. Rarey left instructions for the care of Cruiser in his will. Upon Rarey's death, Cruiser's temper returned. "
Connections
Never having married, he lived with his mother at Groveport after he retired, building a mansion for her on the site of the modest farm house in which he had been born.