XVlll INTRODUCTION. 



described, and others of a similar nature, and also 

 from my often being asked by gentlemen, if there 

 was no book published on the Treatment and Con- 

 dition of Race-horses, that I was first induced to 

 turn my thoughts on writing a Treatise of this kind. 

 With this view, I have minutely studied every par- 

 ticular circumstance, relative to the subject, or that 

 is connected with it ; but to what extent I may 

 have succeeded, in bringing this first part of the 

 Art of Training Race-horses into a correct and re- 

 gular system, I must leave to that portion of the pub- 

 lic, who are competent to judge of the practical in- 

 structions here attempted. 



In this first part of my work, I have stated many 

 minute circumstances, which, although apparently 

 of little value, will, in their general application, be 

 found to be of the highest consequence ; and the 

 rules which I have laid down, will, I trust, appear 

 so just and simple in their principles, and the ex- 

 planations which accompany them, so clear, that 

 grooms who are able to read, may, by a frequent 

 reference to them, and by a particular attention to the 

 minute circumstances to which I have alluded in this 

 first part, and to which I shall also refer in the se- 

 cond, gain a perfect acquaintance with the whole 

 economy of training stables, and with the most 

 correct and proper method of training such horses 

 as may be entrusted to their care. By gaining such 

 knowledge, I hesitate not to say, that they will 



