PREFACE. 



THERE are eleven million horses in the United States, and 

 not one man in a million who knows how to educate them 

 to the highest degree of usefulness. We say educate ; for the 

 horse is an animal of high and spirited organization, endowed by 

 his Creator with capabilities and faculties which sufficiently re- 

 semble man's to come under the same general law of education 

 and government. Primarily, the word educate means to lead out 

 or lead up ; and it is by the process of leading out and leading 

 up a child's faculties that the child becomes a useful man, and it 

 is by a like process that a colt becomes a useful horse. Now, 

 teachers, like poets, are born, not made. Only a few are gifted 

 to see into and through any form of highly organized life, 

 discern its capacities, note the interior tendencies which produce 

 habits, and discover the method of developing the innate forces 

 until they reach their noblest expression, and then apply the 

 true and sufficient guidance and government. The few who have 

 this gift are teachers indeed, and, next to the mothers- of the 

 world, deserve the world's applause as foremost among its ben- 

 efactors. 



Next to child training and government comes horse training 

 and government ; and which is the least understood, it were 



*This preface was written by a gentleman well known in the world of let- 

 ters, and especially famous, not only as a lover of fine horses, but as a high 

 authority on all matters concerning them. Learning that I had in preparation a 

 new work, he volunteered to write the preface, which is here given as a concise 

 introduction to the author's own labors, with a high appreciation of the compli- 

 ment paid him by the distinguished writer, in the personal allusion, the publi- 

 cation of which demands no apology when its high source is considered. 



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