420 



RIDING 



SAD 



sians, 215; of early Greeks, 

 219 



Saddle-horse, the, 43 ; compre- 

 hensiveness of the term, 43 ; 

 sources of supply of English 

 horses in the sixteenth century, 

 45 ; the * Turkic horse,' 46 ; 

 the ' Barbarian,' the Sardinian, 

 and the Corsican, 46 ; the 

 Neapolitan, 47 ; the Spanish 

 jennet, 47 ; the Hungarian, 

 the Almaine, the Flanders, 

 and the Friezeland, 47 ; the 

 Irish hobbie, 48 ; sixteenth 

 century training and treat- 

 ment, 48 ; curious correction 

 for 'restifenesse,' 49; sup- 

 posed influence of colour on 

 disposition, 50 ; Virgil's de- 

 scription of a horse, 51 ; 

 Major Whyte Melville's ideal, 

 52 ; the English hack of the 

 present day, 52 ; school rid- 

 i n g> 53 5 ' a i fs ' f the school 

 horse, 54 ; the perfect hack, 

 55 ; thoroughbreds as hacks, 

 56, 6i; half-breds, 57; effect 

 of breeding from unsound 

 sires, 57 ; requisites for a 

 perfect hack, 57, 60 ; econo- 

 mical way of obtaining a good 

 saddle-horse, 59 ; difficulty of 

 rinding good hacks, 60; ponies 

 as hacks, 61 ; care of the 

 horse in the stable, 61 



Saddles, 7, 41, 44, 76, 129, 

 130, 178, 224, 275 



Saddle-trees, earliest Roman 

 evidence of, 222-224 '> in the 

 eleventh to eighteenth cen- 

 turies, 2~4 



St. Quintin, Col., 236, 254, 

 261, 281, 313, 334 



STE 



St. Quintin, Mr., 254, 261 

 Sarfaraz, Ressaldar, 298 

 Saunders, Mr., 180 ; on horse- 

 manship, 181, 201, 205, 

 207 



Scala, the, 224 

 School riding, 53 ; horse, 54 

 'Scrub' horses of Australia, 180 

 Seat, good and bad, 131-138 ; 

 causes of bad seat, 133; posi- 

 tion in saddle of rider with 

 good seat, 136; of Australian 

 colonists, 205 ; Xenophon's 

 instructions for the seat, 

 217 



Secunderabad polo ground, 283 

 Sheffield-Neave, Mr., 349 

 Sherer, Maj.-Gen. J. F., 236, 



279; on polo, 276, 277 

 Shoeing, 66 



Smith, Capt. Arthur, 23, 26 

 Smith's ' Classical Dictionary,' 



horsemanship in, 215, 222 

 Smythe, Capt. Walter, 236, 



287 

 Snaffles, 10, u, 71, 80, 86, 90, 



113, 114, 124, 128 

 South California polo club, 260 

 Sperling, Mr., 349 

 Spicer, Capt. Julian, 287, 345, 



346 



Spurs, use of, 81, 127, 128, 129, 

 132, 148, 153, 155, 156 ; the 

 ancient Greeks the first known 

 users of, 218 ; should be dis- 

 carded in polo matches, 



3 2 7 

 Stable, care of the horse in the, 



61, 68 



Startin, Mr., 334 

 Stead, Mr. G. G., 164 

 Steeds, Capt., 333 

 Stewart, Capt. G., 280 



