Horse Management in India. 



author proves himself to be not only well-informed theoretically and 

 practically, as to preparing horses for racing in that hot climate, as well 

 as to their equipment and handling for ordinary work, but he also shows 

 that he is possessed of no mean amount of that knowledge which is 

 derived from the study of veterinary medicine. His remarks on shoeing 

 are most judicious and sensible, and if his recommendations were adopted 

 and carried into effect, the pernicious farriery of the native shoeing-smiths 

 would be replaced by a method which would greatly benefit horses and 

 their owners. 



** Everything relating to racing in India, and the rules of the turf in 

 that country, is embodied in Captain Hayes' book, and not the least 

 valuable portion of it is the Hindustanee vocabulary, containing verna- 

 cular terms referring to all matters relating to the horse, as well as 

 diseases, medicine, etc. This alone should make the guide valuable to 

 the young veterinary surgeon, who finds himself compelled to pick up, as 

 best he can, the rudiments of a strange language when he commences 

 his tour of professional duty." 



Saturday Review. — " Captain Hayes has brought out a second edition 

 of his work on the training and management of horses in India. It is, of 

 course, specially adapted to the circumstances of that country ; but the 

 general instructions which it contains, and which are of a shrewd and 

 practical character, render it a useful guide in regard to horses anywhere." 



Bombay Gazette. — "We have to acknowledge with thanks the receipt 

 of the new edition, re-arranged and much enlarged, of Captain Hayes' 

 very valuable handbook on the above subject. Captain Hayes, by his 

 ' Veterinary Notes for Horse-owners,' as well as the former edition of 

 the work we are now noticing, has already made his name pretty familiar 

 to the lovers of horseflesh in India, and it would therefore be quite 

 superfluous for us to say that he is an authority to whom the horse-owner 

 may safely turn for advice and assistance on every kind of subject con- 

 nected with the horse and his use. 



*' Throughout the whole of this valuable contribution to the literature 

 of the horse and his management the author has said his say in a plain, 

 practical manner, yet with a graphic fluency of diction which renders the 

 book quite pleasant reading in comparison to many others of the treatises 

 which have appeared on the same subject." 



Thacker^ Spink 6^ C^., Calcutta. W. Thackcr &> Co.^ London. 



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