PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION. 



IN the previous edition of this work, which was 

 intended chiefly for the use of racing men, the 

 subject of Horse Management was made subser- 

 vient to that of Training, while the principles of 

 the former were enunciated with but little at- 

 tempt to reason out their correctness. The favour- 

 able notice which the work received from the 

 Public, convinced the Author of the advisability 

 of treating, in detail, these two subjects under 

 separate headings, and of giving, in popular 

 language, a concise resume of the theoretical 

 points affecting the Horse, so that the reader 

 might draw his own deductions, without having 

 to accept the mere ipse dixit of the Author 

 as sufficient authority for his teaching. By this, 

 the practical utility of the work is in no way 

 prejudiced, for these chapters are complete and 

 distinct in themselves, so that the reader may 

 skip them or not as he chooses, while the in- 

 ferences to be drawn from them are separately 

 summed up. 



