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TREATISE ON THE CARE, TREATMENT, 
accurate and lively, can no more excite the sensations inspired bv 
conve^eta^ou'of^" ^ ieKd P 6oa ° f a P la m-puddmg can 
“ That which was formed to captivate the eye, 
X he ear must coldly taste. Description’s weak, 
And the Muse faulters in the vain attempt.” 
Hence the paucity of works descriptive of racing, and the little 
thepuhltf SUbj6Ct 6XClteS am ° n S the —conceded portS 
But training Mr. D. tells us, “ at Newmarket and various 
otiier well-conducted racing establishments, has lono- since been 
ranked as a science."! However this may turn out to be in the 
coiuse ot our inquiries, they certainly cannot be called a scientific 
eve d / yc t d \ p rr r sk ; ,r lth ?, ugh we are read y to 
its purposes and emh *** myStery “ th ® acc °mphshment of 
Let us inquire what training really and trulv is. To tove a 
concise and time-pleasing definition, we may say at once that it 
which bl/toV^f ^ ° f S ettin g a horse into that condition 
, , lch best fits . him for the race. The kind or description of know 
ledge upon which this art is to be rationally based constitutes tC 
fXd ° n f trai f g in° r raCing C that Which has bee^'otn— 
looked, owing to the proverbial ignorance of grooms, stable-bovs 
and jockeys, and the absolute and indispensable necessity there 
appeared to exist for scientific men to alt in their Ices before 
fliey could qualify themselves to treat on such a subject. The 
isiness of the trainer can no more be learnt from books than that 
J the jockey: it is one of those arts which hinges ever upon so 
Them a?r C at Ca tbe 0ntmgel i CieS ’ n ° b °° k Can be framed * meet 
them all. at the same time, there cannot exist the shade of a 
doubt in any reasonable mind but that a man of veterinary know- 
ledoe would have the advantage, cateris paribus, of any other in 
b r r f S :r°"’- and P art ! cularl y if such knowledge 7 could’be 
bi ought to bear immediately upon the practice itself as is the 
case, we presume, with the work now before us. ’ 
Ktt sss wm ” with ^ 
He sought his fortune farther than at home.” 
enn,?oy ofM?Srooke“th?£T ^7 ° f age ’ Mr * D ‘ was take « into (he 
taugin to mb le™seUhe 2*' leT T +°"“i aS , “ stable - b °y- He was first 
riding horses otiAo exercise^ to wort off fl" , clea “ «P ,‘|>e yard: at times, 
one at the tail of the strin° A ^ °, r to fo,,ow upon a steady 
ct the st,mg, Lc. &c. Next, he looked after a racer himself, 
