PREFACE TO THE SIXTH 

 EDITION 



This is the first book that my husband wrote and also 



the last; for he was correcting the final proofs of this 



edition when he was summoned to lay aside his pen and 



to pass from this toiling world in a peaceful sleep. 



His brilliant works on horses are well known to the 



horse-loving public in all parts of the world, and that 



this volume has proved of immense value to horse-owners 



in India is testified by the fact of a sixth edition being 



required. Mr. Harry Abbott, the well-known writer and 



sportsman, ^vrote of it : — " It is within a few months of 



thirty years since I first reviewed 'Training and Horse 



Management in India.' At the time it was issued there 



was nothing in print to aid either professional or amateur 



trainers out here, so that the useful little booklet came 



as a boon and a blessing to them. During the whole of 



my long racing career in this country, that work, and 



its vastly improved subsequent editions, was my guide, 



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