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    Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding
    Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding
    Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding
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    Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding

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    Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding
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      Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding - George Greenwood

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      Title: Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece

      or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding

      Author: George Greenwood

      Release Date: April 12, 2009 [EBook #28563]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HINTS ON HORSEMANSHIP ***

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      Transcriber’s Note

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      δάχτυλοςκ

      HINTS ON HORSEMANSHIP.

      Engraved by W. Finden

      HINTS ON HORSEMANSHIP,

      TO

      A Nephew and Niece.

      BY

      AN OFFICER OF THE HOUSEHOLD BRIGADE

      OF CAVALRY.

      Engraved by W. Finden.

      LONDON.

      EDWARD MOXON & Co. DOVER STREET.

      1861.

      HINTS ON HORSEMANSHIP,

      TO

      A Nephew and Niece;

      OR,

      COMMON SENSE AND COMMON ERRORS IN

      COMMON RIDING.

      BY

      COLONEL GEORGE GREENWOOD,

      Late Lieut.-Col. commanding 2nd Life Guards.

      NEW EDITION.

      LONDON:

      EDWARD MOXON & CO., DOVER STREET.

      1861.

      LONDON

      BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

      CONTENTS.

      CHAPTER I.

      MILITARY RIDING NOT FIT FOR COMMON RIDING.

      CHAPTER II.

      HOLDING AND HANDLING THE REINS.

      CHAPTER III.

      EFFECT OF INDICATIONS.

      CHAPTER IV.

      MECHANICAL AID OF THE RIDER.

      CHAPTER V.

      THE SEAT.

      CHAPTER VI.

      MOUNTING AND DISMOUNTING.

      CHAPTER VII.

      THE BIT.

      CHAPTER VIII.

      THE SADDLE AND SIDE-SADDLE.

      CHAPTER IX.

      THE SHORT REIN.

      CHAPTER X.

      COLT-BREAKING.

      CHAPTER XI.

      THE HORSE AND HIS STABLE.

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

      HINTS ON HORSEMANSHIP.

      CHAPTER I.

      MILITARY RIDING NOT FIT FOR COMMON RIDING.

      Throughout Europe there is only one style of riding taught; that is, the soldier’s one-handed style.—Two hands should be used to the reins.—A soldier’s horse must turn on the wrong rein.—Common riders generally turn their horses on the wrong rein. Result of this with colts or restive horses.—Indications are not aids.

      When you wish to turn to the right pull the right rein stronger than the left. This is common sense. The common error is precisely the reverse. The common error is, when you wish to turn to the right to pass the hand to the right. By this the right rein is slackened, and the left rein is tightened, across the horse’s neck, and the horse is required to turn to the right when the left rein is pulled. It is to correct this common error, this monstrous and perpetual source of bad riding and of bad usage to good animals, that these pages are written.

      England is the only European country which admits of more than one style of riding. Only one style of riding taught. But in all Europe,

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