viii PREFACE 



Of course, the great purpose of the publica- 

 tion is to show how preventable disease can 

 be prevented in the horse, and if in the next 

 and succeeding years our sick lines of horses 

 in a state of war — i.e., picketed out or on 

 annual manoeuvres — is materially reduced, 

 and if the reports of coughing and fever 

 from the racing stables are of less frequent 

 appearance in the sporting columns, then 

 the object of the work will have been fully 

 attained. 



I have to acknowledge my indebtedness to 

 Major J. Burns-Lindow, South Irish Horse, 

 for his notes on the schooling of jumpers, 

 which I have included in the Appendix ; 

 and to Messrs. Pathe Freres for the use of 

 their cinematograph films, with which the 

 lecture was illustrated. 



F. F. M. 



Febntary, 191 1. 



