CAVALRY HORSEMANSHIP 

 AND HORSE TRAINING 



GENERALITIES 



OBJECT AND DIVISIONS.— The object of military 

 equitation is to turn out bold and skilled horsemen, 

 exercising over their horses a domination sufficiently 

 complete to enable them to concentrate their Avhole 

 mind, without effort, on their enemy, no matter what 

 the circumstances, or the nature of the ground may be. 

 The instruction of horsemanship consequently 

 comprises the practice of the systems taught to place 

 a recruit on a horse ; the study and use of the principles 

 indispensable to the horsemanship of the older men, 

 and the N.C.O.'s ; and finally, the application of the 

 rules adopted for the training of young horses. The 

 study of military riding divides itself into three parts — 



1. The education of the rider. 



2. The education of the young horse. 



3. The application of the principles of horse- 



manship and training to the employment 



of the horse. 

 First Part.— The Education of the Rider. — The 

 education of the rider requires a trained horse. This 

 part of the instruction includes the study of every- 

 thing which specially concerns the man : it describes 

 the qualities required in the instructor, and the method 



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