vi PREFACE 



Thus readers will see how difficult it is to 

 bring sporting topics in book-form completely- 

 up-to-date. So I must ask all interested in this 

 subject to view " Horses, Horsemen, and Stable- 

 Management " in a broad light, and to realise that 

 it has been no easy task to connect the earliest 

 times with the year 1908. 



It would have been a mistake to have dwelt 

 at tedious length on the past and to have written 

 too little about the present. Nor could I omit 

 the practical side, i.e. stable-management. Yet 

 my chief difficulty lay in explaining, as clearly 

 as I could, matters of importance, not knowing 

 to what extent readers are in touch with the 

 equine world. 



Sovereign, president, peer, commoner, mer- 

 chant, shopkeeper, farmer, and stable-help — for 

 this is a cosmopolitan book — to all these the 

 following pages are addressed in a spirit of good- 

 fellowship by The Author. 



