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Excerpt from A New System of Horse Training: As Practiced and Taught by S. R. Clapp, Including a Treatise on Shoeing The subject of horsemanship is so closely allied and identified with all man's interest that everything that can be said to promote a reform in that particular, cannot but commend itself to every one interested in that noble animal, and who is there that is not. For the most common transactions of every day life cannot be consummated without calling in his aid. This book is not presented to the public as an unexceptionable treatise on the horse. It is merely a plain practical exposition of the best system of horsemanship, that to-day is extant, one that has met with the approbation and commendation of the best horsemen of the age, and one that has received a patronage vouchsafed to no other system. It is merely to gratify a desire expressed by hundreds who have witnessed my operations, to have me publish a book explanatory of the system, so that many things that otherwise might escape their notice, that can at any moment be refreshed by simply a reference to the book, and yet every move with the horse is made so plain and intelligible, that those who have never witnessed my operations can take hold of and manage the wildest colt or the most vicious horse. While I beg from the scrutinizing public a charitable criticism for any short coming that may be discovered, I yet feel great confidence that the work will meet with a hearty approval from horsemen generally and prove a valuable auxilliary in bringing about that much needed reform in the proper management and control of the most noble of the brute creation. 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.