COACHING 



These undertakings have almost invariably 

 been conducted upon non-practical and most 

 expensive lines, with the natural result of aband- 

 onment by the backers who found the debit side 

 too extensive to face with equanimity, and of lack 

 of support from a public which objected to paying 

 heavily for a ride to a private club wherein they 

 were tolerated but not encouraged ; or to nearby 

 road-houses where the company was not unlikely 

 to prove miscellaneous, to say the least, and the 

 nourishment simply awful. 



Practically managed, the sport is not necessarily 

 expensive, and with a more general understanding 

 of this fact, it seems certain that the sound of the 

 horn and the " chatter " of the bars would be very 

 generally heard upon the splendid roads which 

 lead from ail our cities to nearby places of 

 interesting environment. 



If one wishes to learn the art of "charioteering" 

 from the "ground up," to acquire a practical and 

 speedy knowledge of horse flesh, its capabilities, 

 limitations, its management and preservation in 

 health and soundness, to secure health-giving 

 exercise in the open air, to afford vast pleasure 

 to hosts of friends and acquaintances, there is no 

 way he may so speedily and easily accomplish 



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