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REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — H or. 
STABLE PRACTICE ; OR, HINTS ON TRAINING FOR THE 
TURF, THE CHASE, AND THE ROAD ; WITH OBSERVA- 
TIONS ADDRESSED TO ALL WHO ARE CONCERNED IN 
RACING, STEEPLE-CHASING, AND FOX-HUNTING. By 
Cecil, Author of * The Stud Farm.’ Small 8vo, pp. 240. London ; 
Longman fy Co. 1852. 
In a sporting country like ours, there are but few keepers of 
studs, or indeed riders of horses, who are not, at one time or 
other of their lives, u concerned in racing, steeple-chasing, 
or fox-hunting least of all would we exclude Veterinarians 
from this large class of its inhabitants. Not that we would 
have veterinary surgeons employing their time in training, 
or in breaking their necks in steeple chasing; but that we 
would gladly see them foremost in the gallant fox-chase, and 
withal, well acquainted with everything tending to put a 
horse into the highest condition to run a race or a chace 
with impunity to himself and satisfaction to his master. 
Whatever be the nature of the inquiry, providing the horse 
be the object of it, the Veterinarian appears to have a sort of 
legitimate claim, if indeed that claim do not amount to a call 
of duty, to interest himself in it. There can hardly be limits 
to his equine knowledge, indirect or collateral though it be ; 
since, he may depend upon it, when he shall come into 
practice, he will find himself estimated by his employers in 
some such ratio as his knowledge proves extensive and his 
experience general. A little stable talk, for example, 
oftentimes leads a client to give his horse-doctor credit for 
being “ a clever fellow,” when, in point of fact, as a profes- 
sional man, he may happen to be the very reverse. These 
are reasons — to say nothing about them as sources of wiling 
away an hour pleasurably now and then — why sporting 
subjects should not be cast aside by us ; and the same 
