INTRODUCTION 



IT has not been the intention of the 

 author of this little volume to present 

 the reader with elaborate chapters of 

 technical essays. 



Entire libraries have been written on 

 the care and management of the horse 

 from the date of its foaling ; book upon 

 book has been compiled on the best and 

 proper method of acquiring some degree 

 of skill in the saddle. The author has 

 scarcely hoped, therefore, to exhaust in 

 248 pages a subject which, after having 

 been handled on the presses of nearly 

 every publisher in this country and Eng- 

 land, yet contains unsettled points for 



