TIMELY FACTS AND MAXIMS 



IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR SYSTEM OF '^COLT 

 TRAINING." 



THE HORSE. 



H. \Y. Beecher: Society owes to the horse a depth 

 of gratitude a thousand times greater than it does to 

 thousands of men who abuse him. He has ministered 

 to progress; has made social intercourse possible when 

 otherwise it would have been slow and occasional, or 

 altogether impassible; h^ has virtualh' extended the 

 strength of man, augmented his speed, doubled his 

 time, decreased his burdens^ and becoming his slave, 

 has relieved him from drudgery and made him free. 

 For love's sake, for the sake of social life, for eminent 

 moral reasons, the horse deserves to be bred, trained and 

 cared for with scrupulous care. The teaching of men 

 liow to do it has been left too long to men who look 

 upon the horse as an instrument of gambling gains, 

 or of mere physical pleasure. 



The famous, rich and powerful Duke of Portland, 

 'Master-of-Horse to the Queen), who is devotedly fond 



