VI PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



I have enlarged the size of this book, and have re-arranged 

 the photographs, so as to faciUtate reference. The pictures 

 of horses and other animals have been done, as nearly as 

 possible, on a scale of 2^. 



For allowing me to photograph, or to use photographs 

 of, their horses for this book, I have the honour to thank 

 H.R.H the Prince of Wales, Prince Henry of Pless, 

 H.H. the Maharajah of Patiala, H.H. the Maharajah of 

 Kooch Behar, Lady Sybil Tollemache, Lord Londonderry, 

 Lord Belper, Lords Arthur and Lionel Cecil, Lord Marcus 

 Beresford, the Hon. W. Anson, Sir Walter Gilbey, Captain 

 Powell, Captain G. S. Williams, Mr. H. T. Barclay, Mr. 

 Buckmaster, Mr. P. Crawford, Mr. C. G. Duff, Mr. John 

 Gilmour, Mr. Helgesen, Mr. E. D. Miller, Mr. Tom Mitchell, 

 Mr. E. Mucklow, junr., Mr. Muntz, M.P., Mr. John Parnell, 

 Mr. J. E. Peat, Mr. H. C. Stephens, M.P., Mr. Joseph 

 Wainwright, Mr. R. H. Walker, Mr. W. H.Walker, Messrs. 

 John and James White, Mr. Horace Wolton, and other 

 gentlemen. I beg to thank Professor Wallace (for the photo- 

 graph of Queen of Trumps, which has appeared in his 

 Farm Live Stock of Great Britain), the Shire Horse Society 

 (for the photographs of Bury Victor Chief, Rokeby Harold, 

 and Rokeby Fuchsia), the Suffolk Horse Society (for the 

 photograph of Chieftain s Champion), Mr. Frank Haes, Mr. 

 J. Cowell, Mr. R. Hotz, Messrs. Dixon & Sons, Mr. C. Reid, 

 Mr. Clarence Hailey, Mr. W. A. Rouch, Messrs. Barrauds, 

 Messrs. Schreiber, Mr. C. Tadman, and Mr. H. R. Gibbs, 

 for the photographs they have allowed me to use. A group 

 in which the mare and foal in Fig. 352 is included, has been 

 published in the Badminton Magazine. Figs. 237, 361, 362, 

 402 and 403 have appeared in Modern Polo. 



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