Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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"I never bothered with the ladies much, I thought more about horses. I'd a good pal when I'd I good horse."

Alan Whicker travels to Spofforth in North Yorkshire, to meet Jack Anderson. Jack is one of the few remaining horse breakers still working in Britain today. What is the secret to taming a horse?


Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 9 September, 1960.




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