PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION. 



THE following pages have been revised and corrected 

 by a PROFESSIONAL MAN. In a work, however, so 

 generally correct from its author's hands, there has 

 not been much to amend. The errors corrected were 

 principally such as a non-professional man was likely 

 to fall into. The Reviser has had a very extensive 

 practice in India, extending over a period of eight and 

 twenty years, and his position in the service of Go- 

 vernment has afforded him the opportunity of making 

 the peculiarities of Arabs and other horses his constant 

 study during that long period : while at the same 

 time it enables him to say that with but few 

 exceptions in India, more horses have passed through 

 his hands professionally, than those of any other man. 



He has, therefore, been able to make a few correc- 

 tions in the text regarding the peculiarities of horses 

 generally used in India, and their proper management ; 

 also to notice characteristics which might be unob- 

 served, by even Professional Men, with less wide 

 experience. 



This little work is now strongly recommended by 

 the Reviser, as richly meriting the attention of all 

 possessors of horses, (private gentlemen as well the 

 Profession) who take an interest in their comfort and 

 health ; to promote and secure which many useful 

 lessons will be found in its pages. 



MADRAS, May, 1858. D. S. 



