INTEODUCTION, 



I THINK it fit that I should offer 

 some explanation for advocating the 

 school system of training, since it 

 is generally regarded as something 

 fanciful and useless, if not positively 

 mischievous. 



I shall first say a few words con- 

 cerning the importance of a thorough 

 method in the training of horses for 

 the saddle, and I shall then answer, 

 as far as I am able, the objections 



