HORSE TAMING EXHIBITION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIX, Issue 6875, 13 March 1883, Page 5

HORSE TAMING EXHIBITION.

** • Mr John Dewe," The New Zsaland Barey," gave bis seoond exhibition at hone taming ftt Tatteraairo last atoning. Thar* was alaTge attendance of the public, all tho wot* of the saleyards being filled, and many persons standing. The result of the efforts of the horse-tainer wero nob so suooeuful m they were when he gave the first exhibition of hit ikill, but tbey served to show the patience and quiet extermination possessed by Mr Dewe under circumstances of the most trying description. He had to deal with a mare stated to be four years old, whioh had never been broken in »ny way, *nd was apparently possessed of a most unoouquerablo and stubborn spirit, and he had to perform the difficult task of breaking this animal before an assembly, containing vannj vtnow whose sympathies were decidedly against the horse., trainer and his humane method. Mr Dewe, contending with these difficulties, never once allowed himself to become impatient, or to resort to any of the ordinary and generally cruel methods used by those who th nk it necessary to be brutal in the breaking of horses. The animal whioh was to put Mr Dewo's powers to the test was a young mate belonging to Mr Thomas Bowe, butcher, of Ohristchuroh, and w««'stated by her owner to be a thoroughbred Arab Ally by Tautora. After about an hour and a-quarter's endeavours the animal was successfully roped round the neck. ?r I De ™ '*">» •P« fc twenty minutes in haitien efforts to place first an ordinary !**&** head-stall, and afterwards one looped upofrope, over the mare'a head. Mr Wright then announced that Mr Dewe h»d deoided to hate the horse

(laced in the crush pen, in order to enable im to afllx the heed-ntsll, and Mr Wright appealed to those present to be as quiet as possible, a request which was by no means acceded 10. After an absence of about a quarter of an hour, the untameabfe mare was led baok wearing an ordinary leather headstall. Notwithstanding alt Mr Dewe's effort*, she remained as intractable as ever, throwing herself down, disengaging the head-stall, and actually lifting one of the heavy wooden gates at toe end of the tanned enclosure off its hinges. It was then* announced that, as the spectators had been subjected to a disappointment, a free exhibition would be given in Tattereall's on Thursday evening. (Tome person, who claimed to have had experienoe in horsebreaking, came forward and offered to mount the hone if the head si all was replaced, but tbe performance did not come off. Mr Dewe states that he is convinced that he would have been successful but for tbe great noise made by the audience | and, as before remarked, some of the behaviour manifested was most thoughtleti, and was, in faot, wilfully obstructive to the horse-tamer's work.