INDEX. 



459 



Sornette, 386. 

 Soup, 441. 

 " Spectacles," 100. 

 Speed, 12, 14, 16, 21. 

 Spinal column, 114. 

 Spring bars, 1 10, 427. 



,, hooks, 53. 



,, in saddle, 119. 

 Sprinters, 16. 



Spurs, 208, 210, 211, 345, 405. 

 Stabling for hunters, 299. 

 Stag hunting, 296, 300. 

 Standing in the stirrups, 373. 

 Staples, 114. 

 Starch, 436, 437. 

 Starting for a race, 378-380. 



,, ,, ,, run, 362, 364. 

 Steel for bits, 27-29. 

 Steeplechase riding, 410. 

 Steinbok, 325. 

 Stevens, Mr. John, 258. 

 Sticks, 208, 211, 218. 

 Stile, Midland, 356. 

 Stirrup irons, 139, 428. 



,, leathers, 137, 150, 152. 



,, ,, , buckles of, 138. 



,, ,, , twisting, 149. 



Stirrups, feet home in, 196. 



,, , length of, 200. 



,, , measuring, 169. 



,, , riding without, 7. 

 Stock driving, 227. 

 Stops on reins, 56. 

 Straight head (pommel), 121. 



,, , riding, 364. 

 Stud-billets, 53. 

 Stuffing of panel, 129. 

 Stumbling, 275. 

 Stutterer, a, 391. 

 Subscriptions to hunts, 320-322. 

 Surcingles, in, 145, 430. 

 Sweat flaps, 113. 

 Sweating, 443. 

 Swerving, 246. 

 Swimming a horse, 249. 

 Swindells, Mr. F., 404. 



TAR, 312. 



Tarporley Hunt Club, 340. 

 Taunton Vale, 341. 

 Thorns, 336. 

 Throat-latches, 54, 106. 

 Thurlow's bit, Lord, 44, 82. 

 Ties, hunting, 344. 

 Timber, riding at, 288. 

 Timing training gallops, 382. 

 Toast, 437. 

 Tomato, 405. 

 Tongue over bit, 80, 271. 

 Trees, saddle, 109, in, 116. 

 Trot, 231, 235. 



,, , turning at the, 22, 242. 

 Turning horse, 22, 23, 72, 98, 222, 223, 



226, 240-243, 449. 

 Turning horse at canter, 23, 243. 



,, ,, ,, trot, 22, 242. 



,, ,, ,, walk, 22, 242. 



Twist of a saddle, 113, 1 1 8. 



UNITED, 340. 

 Unsteadiness, 273. 

 Urea, 433. 

 Uric acid, 434, 435. 



VALE OF WHITE HORSE, 320. 



Valentine's Brook, 422. 



Vegetables, 435, 439, 442. 



Vertebrae, 114. 



Vauban, 394. 



Vices, horses with, 252-277. 



Vine, 350. 



Vixens, 299, 331-336. 



Voice, 208, 220. 



WAIST OF A SADDLE, 113, 114, 



118. 



Waistcoats, hunting, 344. 

 Waiting, 383. 



,, in front, 388. 

 Walk, riding at a, 230. 



,, , turning at a, 242. 

 Walls, 356. 

 Warburton, 319. 

 Ward Union curb, 41, 83. 



