HOW TO MAKE MONET BY HORSES. 7 



or liunter, to satisfy myself of his state of condition. 

 Chacun a son gout. 



I admit as fact, that to become a good judge 

 of, and manager, of anything, it is necessary to enter 

 into the details and minutiae of its management. 

 It is so as regards horses ; but how is this learnt 

 by the gentleman ? By from early youth being 

 accustomed to see them in condition, in the rough, 

 in the stable and out of it, at rest, in exercise, 

 and in work. He overlooks his servants, and pro- 

 bably, in his boyish days, those of his father : 

 there is nothing ungentlemanly in this ; and by 

 thi3, he becomes so conversant in such matters, 

 that he knows all that a stud-groom can know, 

 and sometimes a little more, from education having 

 taught him to reflect, an attribute not common 

 in common men. Thus it will be seen, that it is 

 not quite as had (as I supposed to have probably 

 been stated) to be a perfect judge of horses as of dips, 

 or to sell horses to advantage, as it is to sell the 

 other ; nor is it quite the same thing to overlook a 

 string of race-horses at the water-trough (if one is 



