INTRODUCTION 



. AFTER the many publications upon 

 equestrian subjects, it may appear to some 

 rather extraordinary that matter either nezv^ 

 instructive, or entertaining, can be produced 

 to excite the serious attention, even of those 

 who are the most curious in their par- 

 ticular studs, and different appropriations ; 

 but such admiration will as readily subside, 

 upon a retrospective allusion to the origi- 

 nal motives of the various writers, the 

 almost unlimited extent of the subject, the 

 constantly increasing estimation of the 

 object treated on, and the consignment to 



