VI. PREFACE. 



and wretched deformity; whilst the other would 

 show only grace, elegance and excess of hfe. 



At present the breeding of racing stock only 

 approaches the great law of survival of the fit- 

 test, much care being taken to register results, 

 and the representatives of best results are set 

 apart to reproduce their hke. A more perfect 

 combination of scientific and logical method than 

 is followed in the reproduction of racing stock 

 does not obtain in any physicist's laboratory. 

 With no other class of horse is this method ap- 

 phcable; hence the necessity of judging by other 

 and less exact methods, and therefore the neces- 

 sity of some such way as has been indicated. 



Lastly, it is desirable here to point out that the 

 book is not written with any intention of stand- 

 ing in place of the thinking out process of the 

 learner, but is more as a guide to the hues along 

 which thought must be directed. By using it as 

 a guide, and thinking out the subject for himself, 

 the author beheves that any one of intelligence 

 may in a very few months, by observation and 

 diligence, become a scientific judge of a horse. 



The author craves indulgence, as the work is en- 

 tirely original. 



London,. March, 1879. 



