RAN 



Ranelagh polo club and ground, 

 257, 299, 319, 335, 345 



Rawlinson, Mr., 351, 352 



Rearing, 127 



Rearing bits, 128 



Reid, Capt., 350 



Reining back, 98-106 



Reins, 67, 71, 72, 73, 78, 79, 

 85, 88, 107, 112, 115, 116, 

 128, 131,, 326 



Renton, Capt., 313, 351 



Richardson, Capt. G., 350 



Riddell, Lady Evelyn, 9 



Ridgeway, Mr., 259 



Riding : early practice, 3 ; its 

 advantages and disadvan- 

 tages, 3 ; how to place a girl 

 on her saddle, 4 ; fitting the 

 stirrup, 5 ; selection of pony 

 for a child, 6 ; putting a boy 

 on a pony, 6 ; evil effects of 

 learning without stirrups, 6 ; 

 the first thing to impress on a 

 boy, 7 ; handling the bridle, 

 7 ; importance of girls learn- 

 ing to ride on either side, 9 ; 

 riding to hounds, 1242 ; 

 methods of teaching in the 

 seventeenth century, 48 ; 

 school riding, 53 ; hints on 

 horsemanship, 86-132; hands 

 and seat, 133-138 ; race rid- 

 ing, 139-157; early history of 

 horsemanship, 211-231 ; les- 

 sons in, 372-392 ; bibliography 



of, 393-404 



Riding to hounds, 12 ; different 

 styles of riding, 13 ; the lead- 

 ing division, 14 ; a ' shuffler's 

 hole,' 17 ; sheep in the way, 

 17 ; ' imperial crowners,' 18 ; 

 an impossible fence, 21 ; the 

 second division, 21 ; all- 



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round men, 23 ; the man 

 who will be with them, 24 ; 

 professional rough riders, 25 ; 

 going first, 26; the cunning 

 man of the hunt, 29 ; point 

 riders, 29 ; importance of a 

 good start, 31 ; the best way 

 of going at obstacles, 31 ; 

 fences, 31, 35 ; timber and 

 walls, 32 ; brooks, 33 ; 

 ' doubles,' 34 ; blind ditches, 

 36 ; ' keep inside hounds 

 when running hard,' 36 ; 

 ' overmarking ' horses, 37 ; 

 horses collapsing suddenly, 

 37 ; the question of how to 

 procure hunters, 39 ; price of 

 good hunters, 41 ; horse 

 furniture, 41 ; saddles, 41 ; 

 bits and bridles, 42 



Robinson, Sir Hercules, 164, 

 261 ; on horsemanship, 183 



Rochfort, Mr. Horace, 257, 



332, 333 



Rollers, 68, 72, 78 



Romans : formation of body of 

 horsemen by Romulus, 221 ; 

 the order of Equites, 221 ; 

 perfection of the art of 

 schooling horses, 221 ; pro- 

 minence of horsemanship, in 

 the public games, 222 ; de- 

 coration of their steeds, 222 ; 

 saddle-trees and saddles, 222- 

 224 



Rossmore, Lord, 255, 335 



Rough riders, 25 



Running reins, 88, 128 



Russell, Mr. T., 166 



SADDLE-CLOTHS of the Egyp- 

 tians, Assyrians, and Per- 



