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    The Lady and Her Horse Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled into a System of Equitation
    The Lady and Her Horse Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled into a System of Equitation
    The Lady and Her Horse Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled into a System of Equitation
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    The Lady and Her Horse Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled into a System of Equitation

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Lady and Her Horse Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled into a System of Equitation - T. A. Jenkins

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      Title: The Lady and Her Horse

      Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled

      into a System of Equitation

      Author: T. A. Jenkins

      Release Date: September 16, 2011 [EBook #37445]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LADY AND HER HORSE ***

      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 corrections is found at the end of the text. Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been maintained. A list of inconsistently spelled and hyphenated words is found at the end of the text.

      THE

      LADY AND HER HORSE,

      BEING HINTS SELECTED

      FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

      AND COMPILED INTO A SYSTEM

      OF

      EQUITATION.

      BY

      Major T. A. JENKINS.

      MADRAS:

      PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY PHAROAH AND CO.

      ATHENÆUM PRESS, MOUNT ROAD.

      1857.

      CONTENTS.

      Introductory Address

      Preparatory Remarks

      Directions for Mounting

      The Seat and Balance

      Holding the Reins

      Aids and Indications

      Guiding

      Animations

      Soothing

      Corrections

      Vices

      Paces of the Horse

      Leaping

      Road Riding

      Dismounting

      Concluding Remarks

      EQUITATION.

      INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS.

      "What delight

      To back the flying Steed, that challenges

      The wind for speed! Seems native more of Air,

      Than Earth! Whose burden only lends him fire!

      Whose soul is in his task, turns labour into sport

      And makes your pastime his!"

      ‘ Love Chase. ’

      The chief point in Horsemanship, Colonel Greenwood observes in his Hints on Horsemanship is to get your horse to be of your party; and not only to obey, but to obey willingly,—Good riding as a whole is indeed no trifle, and is worth acquiring by those whose pleasure or business it is to ride, because it is soon, and easily acquired, and when acquired it becomes habitual, and is as easy, nay much more so; and infinitely more safe, than bad riding. Good riding is an affair of skill, but bad riding is an affair of courage. Yet, in no other art, are there so many self-thought Amateurs. Many ladies have a decided objection to going through the ordeal of a riding school; others have no opportunity of obtaining instructions, and the generality consider, that they are in possession of all that can be acquired upon the subject, when they have discovered a mode of retaining the seat, and guiding the horse; but to those who wish to sit a horse through all his paces, firmly, yet gracefully, to have the animal entirely under command, and as if imbued with one intelligence, to unite boldness, with modesty, and employ energy, without losing delicacy, these hints are addressed.

      PREPARATORY REMARKS.

      A lady’s riding dress, should be neat, and compact, at the same time she should carefully avoid the slightest approach to a mannish appearance; she may study the becoming, provided there be nothing in her whole toilette likely to become disarranged or loosened by wind, or violent exercise. The hair should be so arranged that it cannot be blown about the eyes, and the hat should be perfectly secured on the head. So much for outward appearance, in other respects comfort alone should be studied.

      The whip, should be light, and stiff. When too pliable, a lady frequently touches her horse with it unintentionally, thereby teasing and exciting him, and moreover such a whip is useless as an aid.

      The lady’s bridle, should be, what is called a double bitted bridle, consisting of a bit with a curb-chain; and a snaffle, two separate head-stalls, united by one brow-band, each, with a separate rein.

      The curb-bit is a very powerful implement, the best for all purposes is a light one; in choosing a bit for a horse, the distance between the cheeks, should accord with the width of the horse’s mouth; they should be of an average length, and the mouth-piece should be only sufficiently arched, to admit of the horse’s tongue passing

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