INTRODUCTION. 



IF the training, running, and riding of race 

 horses is not to be considered as a science, I 

 think it may be fairly admitted, that it is a 

 species of knowledge that can only be acquired 

 by early experience, as by boys being put into 

 training stables at twelve years of age, there to 

 remain under a good practical training groom for 

 at least ten or twelve years; and that it is only 

 by the early impressions made on the minds of 

 steady attentive boys, w^hile they are going pro- 

 gressively on throughout the whole practical gra- 

 dations, both in and out of the stables, that they, 

 on arriving at a state of manhood, become equal 

 to undertaking, in every department of it, the 

 management of a racing establishment. 



The first volume I published on the training 

 of the English race horse may be said to be a 

 VOL. II. p. 



