Horsemanship, or, The art of riding and managing a horse - adapted for the guidance of ladies and gentlemen, on the road and in the field - with instructions for breaking in colts and young horses (14780592441)

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Title: Horsemanship, or, The art of riding and managing a horse : adapted for the guidance of ladies and gentlemen, on the road and in the field : with instructions for breaking in colts and young horses
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Richardson, Mervyn
Subjects: Horses Horsemanship
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University



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Messrs. Agnew and Sons.) The Gentlemans Seat ..... To face page 1 The Seat with the Bit and Beidoon Bridle . . .37 At the Cover side . . . . . . .53 The Position of the Ladt with the Double-bein Bridle . 83 CONTENTS. Page Introductory Address . . . . 1 LESSON I.On TiiE Management of the Snajfle-bridle with theReins in one Hand, and having the Use of theStirrups ....... 5 LESSON n.On the Management of the Snaffle-bridle, havino theRein in each Hand, and without the Use of theStirrups •••.... 25 LESSON HLOn the Management of the Double-rein Bridle, or the Bit and Snaffle, having the Use op the Stirrups . 35 LESSON IV.On Leaping with the Double-rein Bridle, and having THE Use op the Stirrups . . . .45 xii CONTENTS. Page LESSON V. On FOX-HONTING . ■ . . • .51 LESSON VL Treatjient of the Horse after hunting . . .67 LESSON VII.Instructions on Riding for Ladies . . . .81 LESSON VIII. Instructions for bre^vking in the Colt or young Horse 97 LESSON IX.On Horse-dealing . . . . . .109
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yM /^^^« HORSEMANSHIP. INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS. Englishmen are frequently puzzled as to the style ofseat they should assume on horseback. If they takeupon themselves the manege style, they are alarmed atbeing accused of copying the military seat; and if theyshoiten the stirrup-leathers, and double themselves ina heap, they are as often charged with riding liketailors or butchers. Generally speaking a person canbe as readily distinguished by the contour of his seat asby the cut of his coat. We mark the tailor, the butcher,the dealer, and the i>;entleman, with readiness and accu- 2 HOESEMANSHIP. racj. The great difficulty is to ride like tlie truesportsman, and avoid every extraneous characteristic.The perfect horseman can appropriate to himself everystyle of seat with equal grace, ease, and truth; there-fore when he takes the field he will be equally cm faitin the rushes of the chase, as in the finished canter ofthe park, or in the formal scenes of the parade. Itfollows as a consequen