THE HANDY HORSE-BOOK OR PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS IN DRIVING, RIDING, AND THE GENERAL CARE AND PR EF A СЕ. FINDING myself a standing reference among my friends and acquaintance on matters relating to horse-flesh, and being constantly in the habit of giving them advice verbally and by letter, I have been induced to comply with repeated suggestions to commit my knowledge to paper, in the shape of a Treatise or Manual. When I say that my experience has been practically tested on the road, in the field, on the turf (having been formerly a steeplechase-rider, as well as now a hunting horseman), with the ribbons, and in a cavalry regiment, I must consider that, with an ardent taste for everything belonging to horses thus nourished for years, I must either have sadly neglected my opportunities, or have |