Excerpt from The Stable Handbook The text of this book speaks for itself, but a few words may be useful with regard to the illustrations. The Stable Handbook is professedly a book for men of moderate means. Why, then, it may be asked, illustrate it with portraits of horses and ponies of a class which must be beyond the means of the majority of readers. My answer is this: These pictures are object lessons, just as the prize-winner at the show is intended to be an object lesson to breeders. To train the eye to judge of horses none but the very best models should be set before it. The reader who will examine the illustrations will be able to see for himself what are the best models approved by experienced judges, and having educated his eye to these, be better qualified to judge of what he wants when he comes to buy for himself. These pictures will also enable us to distinguish between mere prettiness and useful points. Then they will serve to bring before us the different types that are useful for the varying work to which a horse may be put, and this will steady our judgment when buying.

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