PREFACE. 



So many books have been written on horses and 

 stable management, that in commencing the pre- 

 sent little work I feel that I am but about to 

 traverse ground which has been ' ove? i -trodden ' — 

 nay, ' churned up ' — by those who have been in 

 the field before me, and that the subject is already 

 too well worn to admit of yet another treatise upon 

 it being produced. I hope, however, that such 

 may prove not to be the case, inasmuch as since it 

 is indisputable that no two people entertain quite 

 the same ideas on any subject, I may be able, I 

 trust, to view the one at present before me, and 

 treat the same, in a somewhat different manner to 

 my predecessors. What has invariably struck me 

 in perusing the many books on horses and their 

 management which have been already before the 

 public is, as a rule, their want of simplicity. 

 They appear to me to be rather mystifying than 

 instructive. There is usually a great deal said 



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