Excerpt from The Horseowner and Stableman's Companion: Or, Hints on the Selection, Purchase and General Management of the Horse We, however, incur great risk in becoming dogmatical. It is more easy and pleasurable to establish Opinions on the foundation fortified by repeated accessions of scientific memoranda illustrating cause and effect but we cannot wait to follow the intricacies Of the path, results Only must be described, and the mechanism by which they are arrived at carefully shrouded from the View. Whether such a conclusion is justifiable, the keen sense Of the public will rapidly demon strate. The useful being constantly aimed at by the author, he can only hope his efforts may be accepted as heretofore by his numerous readers and the press generally, whose comments have been of the most flattering character. 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.