194 HINTS TO hoesemen; oe, 



Supposing then! to express such opinion, would it 

 not be quite fair in me to suggest, how can they pos- 

 sibly expect to make money by horses of whom their 

 knowledge is about on a par with his in betting ? 



Let no man's vanity be offended by what I say, for 

 there are many who are fair enough judges of horses 

 to be always well mounted, to ride them so as to avoid 

 criticism, to be on a par with the generality of riders, 

 and to be inclined to laugh at many whose attempts 

 at horsemanship call forth such remarks ; yet those 

 who thus ridicule the bad attempts of others, are in 

 no way qualified to make their horses remunerative. 

 A man, to do this, must, at all events, be a perfect 

 judge of the horse he keeps ; for, to make money, it 

 is quite unnecessary for a man to be a judge of a de- 

 scription of horse that he is not in the habit of using. 

 The driving man, who does not hunt, need not be a 

 judge of the qualifications of a hunter : but he must 

 be wide awake to what are held as perfections in the 

 harness horse — the racing man the same ; many of 

 these never rode a day's hunting in their lives, con- 

 sequently, know nothing about hunters : while, on 



