INTRODUCTION. 



circumstances of neglect or mis-management will 

 cause horses in training to change considerably 

 for the worse, can well understand the necessity 

 of my being thus particularly minute, so as clearly 

 to elucidate, as far as I have gone on with the 

 subject, all matters relative to the management 

 of race horses while they are being trained. 



In this volume, as in my first, 1 have in many 

 parts expressed myself in the language (if it may 

 be so termed) of the turf, not, I confess, because 

 such language is the most refined or gentlemanly, 

 but because I think it necessary for such noble- 

 men and gentlemen as are engaged in turf mat- 

 ters readily to understand the conversation of 

 the business people of their stables. This lan- 

 guage, used by trainers, jockeys, and stable boys, 

 when they are conversing with each other on 

 business, is very expressive, that is to say, they un- 

 derstand each other in very few words ; and where 

 I have thought the terms used not generally in- 

 telligible, I have explained them. Indeed, that my 

 meaning may not be misconstrued, I have endea- 

 voured, as far as I have proceeded with the man- 

 agement of the condition of thorough-bred horses, 

 to elucidate, as clearly as I possibly could, the 

 manner of feeding, clothing, watering, exercising, 



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