2 INTEODUCTIOH . 



and learn to trot fast, I offer with confidence. The 

 treatment advised is no pet theory, but the result of 

 years of practice, when the effects of any change in 

 the work was anxiously watched for and carefully 

 noticed. The system, as here exemplified, I have 

 found the best that has come under my observation, 

 and I do not hesitate to rest my name as a horse- 

 man on the award of those who will give it a faith- 

 ful trial. 



The chapters on sweating, food, and drink are not 

 offered as being scientifically correct in a veterinary 

 view. The want of a medical education would have 

 prevented me from writing such a*, treatise, if I had 

 been ambitious to do so ; but the results deduced I 

 know to be correct from the practical tests of every 

 season's experience in training horses. 



Should this effort meet with the favor and support 

 of the public, I will be encouraged to follow the plan I 

 have sketched, and continue the history of the trial 

 stable in the journey from New York westwa,rdly, 

 through the main places to the Mississippi, and down 

 that stream to New Orleans, describing the manage- 

 ment when on the steamboat or railway car, with the 

 care necessary to keep the horses in condition while 

 traveling and frequently trotting in races, accompanied 



