ADVERTISEMENT. 



The contents of the following pages are the results of long 

 practical experience, and have been written with a view to the 

 benefit of persons not thoroughly practised in the proper manage- 

 ment of horses, and to whom the knowledge now imparted may 

 be useful. To men of business in particular, whose time is too 

 much occupied to admit of leisure for much study, beyond their 

 every-day pursuits, the present work may afford information not 

 so easily acquired in other forms. A few minutes devoted to the 

 perusal of it will probably amply compensate them for their trouble, 

 as the whole is comprised in a small compass. It will be found 

 that the entire treatment of the horse, that is, the useful, or road 

 horse, is fully considered in the subsequent pages. The publish- 

 ers, also, are not ashamed to confess, that one part of their object 

 has been to induce greater humanity than is usually practised in 

 the treatment of so noble an animal ; and it is melancholy to re- 

 flect, that the ** high-mettled racer," in the words of the song, is 

 not unlikely to become " food for the hounds." Bui those who 

 are not susceptible of the finer feelings of our nature, may be in- 

 fluenced by considerations of self-interest ; and it would not only 

 evince humanity, but it would be a pecuniary gain, if the owners 

 of horses paid more attention than they usually do to that kind- 

 ness of treatment which is dictated by Nature herself. 



