PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION 



Three years' horse-dealing in India, a horse-breaking 

 tour through South Africa, a study of high-school riding 

 in Paris and Berlin, and two seasons' hunting in Leicester- 

 shire taught me so many new things about horses, since 

 writing the first edition, that the present one is practically 

 a new book. Its letterpress is more than twice as much 

 as that of its predecessor ; the arrangement of the material 

 has been entirely changed ; and 75 new illustrations 

 (reproductions from photographs) have been added to 

 49 old ones. I have given greatly increased prominence 

 to mounted work for the breaking in of horses ; and have 

 added a description of the most modern developments of 

 school breaking, for further information on which subject 

 I would beg to refer my readers to the writings of Fillis 

 and Barroil. 



While writing for practical men, I have kept in view the 

 fact that by working on the principles of equine psychology 

 and equine locomotion, we can make horse-breaking a 

 science as well as an art. 



I have been obliged to say so much about w^ork in the 

 saddle that this second edition trenches to a large extent 



