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RIDING 



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Hanwell, Ca.pt., 352 



Hardy, Mr. Gerald, 287, 317, 



342 

 Harford's, Mr. William, stuffless 



saddle, 7 

 Hargreaves, Mr. Percy, 310, 



348 

 Harrington, Earl of, 236, 287, 



299, 304, 309, 3I5> 3i6, 319, 



323, 33 1 , 338, 341 5 on polo, 



324 

 Hartopp, Mr. ('Chicken'), 254, 



255, 334 



Hayes's ' Sporting News ' 



quoted, 322, 365, 366 

 Heera Singh, 298, 351 

 Herbert, Capt. 'Tip', 236, 



256, 287, 329, 335, 345 

 Herbert, Mr. Reginald, 258, 



259, 335, 345 



Hickie, Mr., 351 



' High ports,' 42 



Hill, Eustace, 280 



Hills, Mr. ' Archie,' 352 



Hitchcock, Mr. T., 261 



Hoare, Sir Henry, 35 



Holbrow's, Mr., patent polo 

 ball, 301 



Hone, Capt. T., 261, 342, 345 



Hone, Mr. Geoffrey, 333 



Hope, Sir William (1696), on 

 horsemanship, 228 



Hornby, Capt., 350 



Horse furniture, 41 ; early 

 Egyptian and Asiatic, 214; 

 Roman, 222 



Horsemanship, early history of, 

 211 ; the first riders : the 

 bit, 211 ; antiquity of the 

 horse in Europe, 211 ; varie- 

 ties of, 211 ; used as food in 

 the 'reindeer period,' 211; 

 horses' bones found in the 



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caves and lake-dwellings of 

 Europe, 211, 212 ; earliest 

 records of the horse in Western 

 Asia, 212, 213 ; in Egypt, 

 213 ; representations of the 

 bit on Egyptian and Assyrian 

 monuments, 214 ; the early 

 horsemen of Egypt and Asia, 

 214 ; their bits, bridles, and 

 saddle-cloths, 214, 215 ; the 

 stirrup and spur unknown to 

 them, 215 ; the Greeks : the 

 spur, 215 ; early Grecian 

 cavalry, 215 ; high esteem in 

 which horsemanship was held, 

 216 ; horse and chariot races 

 in the sacred games, 216 ; 

 the Greeks among the best 

 riders of any age, 217, 220 ; 

 Xenophon's system of horse- 

 manship, 217-219; the 'seat,' 

 217 ; form of bits, 217, 219 ; 

 use of the spur, 218 ; the 

 standing leap, 218 ; substitutes 

 for saddles, 219 ; mode of 

 mounting, 219 ; highly trained 

 condition of Grecian horses, 

 220 ; the Romans : the 

 saddle, 221 ; formation of a 

 body of horsemen by Romu- 

 lus, 221 ; the order of Equites 

 or knights, 221 ; perfection 

 of the art of schooling horses, 

 221, 222; the gestatiO) 221 ; 

 prominence of horsemanship 

 in the public games, 222 ; 

 elaborate decoration of trap- 

 pings, 222 ; earliest evidence 

 of the saddle-tree, 222-224 ; 

 the Age of Armour : the 

 stirrup, 224 ; difficulty of 

 mounting, 224 ; the scala, 

 224 ; first mention of the 



