Flat-Racing Explained^ 



CHAPTER I. 



BREEDING. 



The delight which men take in horses is not con- 

 fined to the British Isles, nor to any portion of Her 

 Majesty's dominions. The feeling is universal 

 throughout the world, wherever men and horses 

 exist. From very early times the British have been 

 a horse-loving people, and as a natural consequence 

 improvement in the several breeds has been pursued 

 with the utmost possible care by successive genera- 

 tions, and at the present it is a moot question if a 

 higher point of excellence can under any circum- 

 stances be attained. 



However, in the study of the thoroughbred no 

 country has been so pertinacious as our own, and I 

 think it may be safely said, in development and 



