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Good looks desirable in sires . . . 51 



Proper condition for mares . . . .55 



^Natural food for horses .... 56 



Cost of rearing a colt ..... 59 



Breeding racing stock . . . . 65 



How best to sell ditto . . . , , ih. 



Action in racing stock .... 69 



Treatment of race-horses according to age . 70 

 Buying racing stock . . . . . 76 



Hopelessness of making money by racing . 78 

 Buying racers to make hunters ... 79 



Dealing and dealers . . . . .81 



Hunting dealers . « . . . 85 



Fences, different sorts of . . . .88 



Horses, different attributes of . . . 89 



Standing leapers . . . . . .90 



Going through dirt . . . . . 92 



Weight, its effects 93 



AYater, som.e horses' dread of . . . 96 



Fear all but incurable in horses ... 98 

 Fear more than vice to be dreaded in horses ih. 



What occasions fear, or rather, the nature of it 99 

 Wall and timber jumping to be taught . 100 



Kiders' opinions of different fences . . .101 

 Horses refusing their fences . . . ih._ 



Patience and perseverance the only cure . 102 



