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on what I had supposed to be t?ie special province of the 

 subject of my book, Riding on the Flat and Across Cotintry. 

 Riper experience shows me that breaking and riding should 

 be studied conjointly ; for we cannot break in a horse 

 properly to saddle unless we know how to ride him ; nor 

 can we ride him to the best advantage unless we know how 

 he has been broken in. Therefore, instead of writing these 

 two works separately, I ought to have brought out one book 

 of two volumes on their respective subjects. Although 

 it is too late now to make the alteration ; I shall bear this 

 fact in mind, when, at som.e future time, I shall have to 

 write a new edition of Riding on the Flat and Across 

 Cojintry ; and shall avoid a good deal of repetition by 

 being able to refer to Illustrated Horse-Breaking. 



I may mention that Messrs. Champion and Wilton, 

 457, Oxford Street, W., keep patterns of the breaking 

 gear I use. 



All the photographs in this book have been done either 

 by my wife or by myself 



The sad and untimely death of Mr. J. H. Oswald Brown 

 has deprived me, when preparing this edition, of the in- 

 valuable help of a friend to whom I owe the greater part 

 of the success attained by the books which he illustrated 

 for me. 



Melton Mowbray, 

 November^ 1^9 5- 



