Excerpt from The Horse-Trainer's and Sportsman's Guide: With Additional Considerations on the Duties of Grooms, on Purchasing Blood Stock, and on Veterinary Examination The racehorse, perhaps, combines in the greatest degree perfection of symmetry and power with grace fulness of action, and therefore I propose first to intro duce him to my readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.