BATCHER S 

 METHOD OF HOKSEMANSHIP, 



FOUNDED ON NEW PRINCIPLES. 



I. 



NEW MEANS OF OBTAINING A GOOD SEAT. 



IT may undoubtedly be thought astonish 

 ing that, in the first editions of this work, 

 which had for its object the horse s education, 

 I should not have commenced by speaking 

 of the rider s seat. In fact, this, so import 

 ant a part of horsemanship, has always been 

 the basis of classical works on the subject. 

 Nevertheless, it is not without a motive 

 that I have deferred treating of this question 

 until now. Had I had nothing new to say 



