YOUNG RACE-HORSES 
WRITERS ON HORSES 
The art of breeding, rearing and training 
race-horses has been the theme of writers 
both numerous and well-informed ; the books 
on the subject would of themselves form 
a considerable library 
It is strange that of all the leading 
authorities—among whom we include the 
celebrated writer C. J. Apperley (‘‘ Nim- 
rod”), C. Bindley (‘‘ Harry Hieover’’), 
R, S. Surtees, Captain F. W. ‘Carlron 
(Craven ”), Admiral Rous and_ other 
contributors to the old sporting magazines 
—not one has fully grasped the significance 
of the example set by the horse in his 
primitive state, nor realised the potent 
influence wrought by natural habit of life on 
stamina and constitution 
Not one of the writers mentioned, nor any 
of the many hundreds of other authorities 
whose names might be given, has ever touched 
