INTRODUCTION. 



As the reader may have inferred from the Preface, 

 this work has nothing to do with the horse as an 

 instrument of sport. Neither will anything be found 

 in it with relation to the breeding of horses, or with 

 their technical ' points ; ' with buying and selling, 

 with the tricks of trade (which, by the way, are not 

 one whit worse than the tricks of any other trade), 

 nor with medical and surgical treatment. 



Let the breeding of horses be left to those whose 

 long experience (tempered with a little fresh blood 

 from an outsider) enables them to supply from the 

 same original source the elephantine cart horse, the 

 light and swift racer, the sturdy cob for general 

 service, the pony for our young people, or that 

 wonderful combination of speed and power which 

 carries its rider to the front in the hunting field. 



Let the horse trade be left to those who under- 



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