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Title: How to handle and educate vicious horses
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Gleason, Oscar R. (Oscar Rudolph), 1856-
Subjects: Horses Dogs
Publisher: New York : Orange Judd Co.
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belonging to aprominent lightning-rod firm was next led into thehall. The horse was a runaway, and was declaredunmanageable by its owners. At the expiration often minutes an open umbrella flourished about itchead did not disturb the perfect composure of theanimal, and he did not raise a hoof from the floorwhen the Professor repeatedly fired a pistol from theanimals back. BECOMES MANAGER OF A STOCK FARM. During my visit to Buffalo I had yielded to thesolicitation of Mr. C. J. Hamlin, and consented to be-come the manager of his extensive and valuable stockfarm, for the purpose, principally, of conducting thecontemplated sale of thoroughbreds the next spring.The offer being one that I could not well refuse, Ibade good-by to my friends in Chicago, and on the25th of March I was installed as manager of the Vil-lage Stock Farm, having under my charge two hun-dred and eighty horses. Among them were MambrinoKing, a stallion for which Mr. Hamlin paid twenty4 50 HOW TO EDUCATE HORSES. ^Pfe-sfe^1
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LIFE SKETCH. 5 I five thousand dollars. This animal was a magnified.;,chestnut, sixteen and a half hands high, and pro-nounced by the French officers, who made a visit ex-pressly to see him, the handsomest horse in the world.Also Almont, Jr., with a record of 2.26. These two,as well as many others, I handled and drove everyday—the jogging alone of the animals, just for exer-cise, obliging me to ride about seventy miles each dayin fine weather. While in Mr. Hamlins employ I had entire chargeof the sale of one hundred and sixteen horses belong-ing to him. In this number were included sixty stall-ions and about twenty brood mares with foals bytheir sides. These all had to be taken about sixteenmiles to the place of sale, viz., the Buffalo DrivingPark, the road crossing no less than four railroads.To repeated inquiries of Mr. Hamlin as to the way Iwas going to get them to said place, my reply was: That is my business. You may rely upon my promiseto have them all safely at the place at t

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