PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. 



THREE years' horse-dealing in India, a horse-breaking tour through 

 South Africa, a study of high-school riding in Paris and Berlin, and 

 two seasons' hunting in Leicestershire taught me so many new 

 things about horses, since writing the first edition, that the present 

 one is practically a new book. Its letterpress is more than twice as 

 much as that of its predecessor ; the arrangement of the material 

 has been entirely changed; and 75 new illustrations (reproductions 

 from photographs) have been added to 49 old ones. I have given 

 greatly increased prominence to mounted work for the breaking in 

 of horses ; and have added a description of the most modern de- 

 velopments of school breaking, for further information on which 

 subject I would beg to refer my readers to the writings of Fillis and 

 Barroil. 



While writing for practical men, I have kept in view the fact that 

 by working on the principles of equine psychology and equine loco- 

 motion, we can make horse-breaking a science as well as an art. 



I have been obliged to say so much about work in the saddle that 

 this second edition trenches to a large extent on what I had supposed 

 to be the special province of the subject of my book, " Riding and 

 Hunting." Riper experience shows me that breaking and riding 

 should be studied conjointly ; for we cannot break in a horse properly 

 to saddle unless we know how to ride him ; nor can we ride him to 

 the best advantage unless we know how he has been broken in. 

 Therefore, instead of writing these two works separately, I ought to 

 have brought out one book of two volumes on their respective subjects. 

 Although it is too late now to make the alteration, I shall bear this 

 fact in mind, when, at some future time, I shall have to write a new 

 edition of " Riding and Hunting " ; and shall avoid a good deal of 

 repetition by being able to refer to "Illustrated Horse-Breaking." 



I may mention that Messrs. Champion and Wilton, 457, Oxford 

 Street, W., keep patterns of the breaking gear I use. 



All the photographs in this book have been done either by my 

 wife or by myself. 



The sad and untimely death of Mr. J. H. Oswald Brown has de- 

 prived me, when preparing this edition, of the invaluable help of a 

 friend to whom I owe the greater part of the success attained by the 

 books which he illustrated for me. 



