PREFACE, 



r is not too miicli to say, that not one horse in 

 A> a hundred, if one in a thousand, in the United 

 States is ever properly broken ; or one in fifty, 

 when offered for sale as a finished horse, entered 

 in the merest nidiments of his education. Hor- 

 ses are very rarely actively, and almost never 

 savagely vicious. Nothing more than this, as a 

 general thing, is required. If a horse will carry 

 his rider without kicking him over his head, or 

 draw him in his wagon or carriage, without 



