INT ROD UCT IO .



and learn to trot fast, I offer with confidence. The
treatment advised is no pet theory, but the result of
years of practice, when the effects of any change in
the work was anxiously watched for and carefully
noticed.  The system, as here exemplified, I have
found the best that has come under my observation,
and I do not hesitate to rest my name as a horse-
mcat on the award of those who will give it a faith-
ful trial.
  The chapters on sweating, food, and drink are not
offered as being scientifically correct in a veterinary
view. The want of a medical education would have
prevented me from writing such a treatise, if I had
been ambitious to do so; but the results deduced I
know to be correct from the practical tests of every
season's experience in training horses.
  Should this effort meet with the favor and support
of the public, I will be encouraged to follow the plan I
have sketched, and continue the history of the trial
stable in the journey from New York westwardly,
through the main places to the Mississippi, and down
that stream to New Orleans, describing the manage-
ment when on the steamboat or railway car, with the
care necessary to keep the horses in condition while
traveling and frequently trotting in races, accompanied



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