10 JULY 1926, Page 26

A handbook for amateur beginners on Training Horses for Races,

by Captain G. W. Meredith (Constable, 4s. 6d.), contains sound but not very striking or original information. The section on jumping is good, as is a final observation on punishment : slovenly work or ill-temper on the part of a good horse is almost invariably due to pain or ill-health, and the cause, not the effect, requires treatment. Colonel Geoffrey Brooke sums up the matter in his introduction thus : "Three quarters of the training is done in the horse's box ; he must be happy, contented, right inside, and feeding well."