The Functions of the 

 Hands in Riding 



By Count MARTINENGO CESARESCO 



Author of " L'Arte di Cavalcare," &c. 



CONTENTS: Office of the Hands; Action of the Hands; How the 

 Hands should act ; Exercises to give the Hands and Arms strength, light- 

 ness, elasticity, promptness, mobility ; Effect of raising the Hands, yielding, 

 bending, traversing reasons for teaching them how they must be executed ; 

 Stopping ; Rearing ; Running Away ; Preventing Falling ; Changing the 

 Gallop ; Position of the Head ; Position of the Neck ; The Mouth ; Hard 

 Mouths ; When the Mouth is too Sensitive 5 Actions of the Horse against 

 the Hand, &c., &c. 



[In the Press. 



THE HORSE: 



From Birth to Old Age 

 By S. BUCKMAN-LINARD 



Crown Svo, cloth extra, y. 6d. Second Edition fully illustrated. 



CONTENTS ; Veterinary Education ; The Sense of Smell in the 

 Horse ; The Blood that Tells ; English and Russian Horses ; Teeth and 

 Toothache ; Lock Jaw ; Americans and their Horses ; Breeds of Horses in 

 the Old World ; Horses 5 their Final Uses, &c., &c. 



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