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    Graceful Riding A Pocket Manual for Equestrians
    Graceful Riding A Pocket Manual for Equestrians
    Graceful Riding A Pocket Manual for Equestrians
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    Graceful Riding A Pocket Manual for Equestrians

    By S. C. Waite

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Graceful Riding A Pocket Manual for Equestrians - S. C. Waite

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Graceful Riding, by S. C. Waite

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      Title: Graceful Riding

      A Pocket Manual for Equestrians

      Author: S. C. Waite

      Release Date: July 11, 2011 [EBook #36701]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GRACEFUL RIDING ***

      Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      Transcriber’s Note

      Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of these changes is found at the end of the text.

      GRACEFUL RIDING.

      A

      POCKET MANUAL FOR EQUESTRIANS.

      ABRIDGED AND REVISED FROM WAITE’S EQUESTRIAN’S MANUAL,

      DEDICATED TO H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT.

      BY

      S. C. WAITE, ESQ.

      LONDON:

      ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY:

      AND ALL BOOKSELLERS.

      1859.

      PREFACE.

      The Author’s last publication, The Equestrian’s Manual, having met with so kind a reception from the Press and the Public—one which he looks upon with the greatest gratitude—has induced him to compile for the use of Equestrians of both sexes the present little Work, in the sincere hope that his humble efforts may, in some degree, aid in obviating the many severe and often fatal accidents, the result, in most instances, of inexperience in Horsemanship.

      Should he have attained this end, and given some instruction to the nervous and timid, or any to the experienced equestrian, he will feel himself well repaid.

      INTRODUCTION.

      The science of Equitation has for many years been allowed, by the testimony and strong recommendation of the most eminent of the faculty, to be an accomplishment highly conducive and most beneficial to health; assisting the blood in its proper circulation through the frame, on which depends wholly good spirits, and freedom from bilious, hypochondriacal, and nervous affections.

      Parents should not neglect to have imparted to their children an art so calculated for the development of grace and beauty in maturity, and, above all other considerations, one that so eminently guards against the many diseases of this varying climate; diseases which are, in fact, almost, if we may use the term, indigenous to the spring and summer of life.

      Physicians, of the past and present time, whose mere names should be sufficient to procure every patronage, are in favour of the acquirement of this most essential and elegant science. The skill necessary to become a perfect rider, can only be obtained through the tuition of a first-rate master; and, as far as the accomplishment can be explained within the limits of a book, the Author has endeavoured to do so; but he repeats there is much which cannot be written, and is only to be acquired through personal tuition.

      Lessons in the school alone can seldom make a good rider. In it the horse and the pupil become accustomed to the same monotonous routine day after day; but when they emerge on the road it is found that the expert rider of the school is deficient in tact and skill; and, in fact, has learnt but little. The nature of the animal will occasion this; changing the scene of every-day objects in the school, for the great variety he must meet on the road, gives an impetus to his hitherto dormant spirit; then the rider will find that he must exert all the skill and judgment he possesses to keep his horse under the proper control indispensable to his safe guidance.

      In conclusion, should this work contribute to the enlightenment of ladies and gentlemen desirous of becoming finished equestrians, it will have accomplished the end for which it was undertaken.

      DESCRIPTION OF PLATES.

      PLATE I.

      The first figure represents Waite’s Improved Seat.

      The

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