CONTENTS 



OF THE 



FIRST VOLUME. 



CHAPTER I. 



Page 



Introduction — Early history of the Horse . . .1 



CHAPTER II. 



Early history of the horse and horse-racing in Great Britain — 

 Brief review of the most remarkable writers on the science of 

 horses and horsemanship . . . . . .17 



CHAPTER III. 



On the Arabian and other Eastern horses . . .43 



CHAPTER IV. 



The Arabian, Turkish, Barb, and Persian horses imported mto 

 Great Britain . . . . . -71 



CHAPTERV. 



Zoological Classification of the Horse — Its external structure — 

 Teeth, &c.— Size, Formation, Colour, Speed, &c., of the tho- 

 rough-bred Horse . . . . . .94 



