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zebras which are in this book, done to a unilbrm scale, 

 namely, i to 20. I have added an index, which I have tried 

 to make as easy of reference and as exhaustive as possible. 



While strictly confining myself to the limits which bound 

 the subject of Equine Conformation, I have had, while writing 

 this book, the fortunate opportunity of throwing light on many 

 points of horse knowledge which I have been, hitherto, unable 

 to discuss in print. I therefore hope that the appearance of 

 this work will help to complete what I have already written, 

 in my books, on veterinary science, riding, breaking, training 

 and stable management ; and that they and it will now form 

 a useful horseman's library. 



Without the skilful aid and kindly sympathy of the late 

 Mr. J. H. Oswald Brown, I would not have been able to 

 have finished this book, even in its present imperfect form. 

 Since the year 1884 we laboured together on this subject. 

 The pleasure in knowing that the work, after innumerable 

 corrections and revisions, is at last done, has lost more than 

 half its charm, from the fact that I cannot share it with him. 

 He had finished the most of the illustrations before his sad 

 and untimely death last autumn. The sketches which he left 

 were completed by Mr. Frank Hobden, to whom I tender 

 my best thanks. 



Junior Army and Navy Club, 



St. James's Street, S.W. 



24//; May, 1893. 



