INTRODUCTION. 



It may appear strange to my readers, and I confess 

 it has appeared so to me, that, among the numerous 

 works which, from time to time, have issued from the 

 press, on the nature and general treatment of Horses, 

 no treatise should have been given on the training 

 of the English Race-horse. Such an omission, I am 

 convinced, could not have arisen from an unbelief 

 in the importance attached to the subject ; it may, I 

 think, be rather attributed to a conscious deficiency in 

 practical knowledge among authors, who, in other 

 respects, might be competent to the task. 



The training of race-horses at the establishments 

 at Newmarket, and at various other well-conducted 

 race-horse stables, has long since been ranked as a 

 science, and it may, perhaps, be said to have attained 

 perfection. Yet the public are comparatively unac- 

 quainted with the manner in which that noble animal, 

 the race-horse, is brought into the admirable condition 

 in which he is exhibited at the post. 



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