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PREFACE. 



When writing the following pages the Author 

 did not delude himself with the idea that he was 

 about to "stagger humanity" by putting forward 

 startling new theories and propositions in Stud 

 Management. He was actuated by the belief that 

 the contents, founded as they are on a twenty-jive 

 years' experience of stud work, might be found 

 helpful to novitiates who had yet to win their 

 spurs, either as stud masters or stud grooms. If 

 old practitioners fail to discover anything new, the 

 Author sincerely trusts that they will at least find 

 much to which they can heartily subscribe. 



HAERY SHARPE. 



January, 1913. 



