PREFACE 



The Author has been tempted to write this work 

 because he has often experienced the want of a small 

 yet practical guide 'dealing with the subject, reliable 

 information being chiefly contained in more expensive 

 manuals. 



Of course, each Horse-breaker naturally advocates 

 some particular system— which he chooses to call his 

 own — and it is just this egotism that destroys the 

 value of his information, no matter how successfully 

 he may have applied it. 



In a book of this class it is essential that theory be 

 ready to shake hands with practice, because without 

 this case of demonstration a book on Horsebreaking 

 becomes merely a delusion. 



The Author leaves himself in the readers' hands to 

 judge whether he has fulfilled his object. 



F. T. BARTON 



Kensington, S.W. 



