CONVERSATIONS ON CONDITIONING. 



Just Published, in one Volume, price Is., 

 with an elegant Frontispiece, 



THE GROOMS' ORACLE, and Pocket Stable 

 Directory, in which the management ot Horses gene- 

 rally, as to Health, Dieting, and Exercise is considered, 

 in a series of familiar Dialogues between Two Grooms 

 engaged in Training Horses to their work. With Notes, 

 and an Appendix ; including extracts from the Receipt 

 Book of 



JOHN HINDS, V.S. 



AUTHOR OF VETERINARY SURGERY, &C. 

 Published by Sheiwc 1& Co. ; Hurst & Co. ; and Whittakee & Co. 



OPINIONS OF THE JUDGES. 



%* Where commendation is general and uncontradicted, no more 

 need be said, in ordinary cases ; but vanity, if not interest and the 

 consciousness of having laboured to a good purpose, superinduces the 

 subsequent quotations from contemporary writers. 



The Sporting Magazine for May, 1829, expresses its surprise that 

 hitherto " no Stable Guide, addressed to the capacity of servants, 

 should have issued from the press. All the old books of farriery .from 

 their stiffness, failed to instruct as they ought ; but in this volume, 

 the matters treated of, independent of the manner in which it is 

 executed, is much to be commended. We no where discern a wish 

 on the part of the Authors to display fine learning; but on the con- 

 trary, they render topics of the most difficult nature perfectly in- 

 telligible to the meanest capacities. As to the points upon which 

 they converse, we discover none omitted that could be desirable to 

 the practical horse-keeper or owner, — the most common-place that 

 may be known to every trainer of eminence, in part or in the whole, 

 being brought forth in a pleasing and truly instructive manner for the 

 benefit of the less-expert and junior persons. But we must quit 

 The Oracle, by recommending it to the notice of those for whom it 

 was specially compiled." Pages 34—6. 



" Mr. J. Hinds' Grooms' Oracle not only comprehends every 

 kind of information relating to the diseases of a horse, but gives 

 ample and admirable directions how that noble animal should be 

 treated so as to obviate disease in every variety of service in which it 

 may be employed." Vide Taunton Courier, April 8, 1829. 



" The matter taught, we are fain to believe, is of the utmost im- 

 portance to the well-being of horses of every description, and of the 

 higher bred cattle in particular; the object of the speakers being to 

 talk of training horses into fit condition forgetting through their work 



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