X THE COMPLETE HORSEMAN 



nected with horse management there is improve- 

 ment. Empiricism, which once held sway, is 

 dying, if not dead ; and the man who commences 

 to keep horses now has not to encounter so many 

 prejudices as were rife when I was a young man. 

 There are some folhes yet, and it is too much to 

 hope for their extinction so long as Fashion is 

 allowed to override Common Sense. But they 

 are trivial compared with what they used to be 

 and some of them at any rate may be regarded 

 as comparatively venial ; and in these days the 

 road is well cleared for the beginner. 



WILLIAM SCARTH DIXON 

 Fairlight, Luton, Beds. 



