OF HORSEMANSHIP. 2oi 



breed of liorfes, no ftep fliould have been taken on 

 the other hand to qualify and inllruc5l the youth of 

 the kingdom in the fuperiour art of riding : for the 

 getting upon the back of an horfe, to be conveyed from 

 one place to another, without knowing what the ani- 

 mal is enabled by nature, art, and pra(ftice to perform, 

 is not Riding : the knowledge and utility of which 

 confifls in being able to difcern, and dextrous to em- 

 ploy the means by which the horfe may be brought 

 to execute what the rider requires of him, with pro- 

 priety, readinefs, and fafety ; and this knowledge in 

 the man, and obedience in the horfe, like foul and 

 body, fliould be fo intimately conne<5ted, as to form 

 One Perfect Whole; this union being fo indifpenfably ne- 

 ceflary, that where it is not, there is no meaning be- 

 tween the man and horfe, they talk different lan- 

 guages, and all is confufion. — While many and fatal 

 mifchiefs may enfue; the man may be wedged in the 

 timber which he flrives to rend, and fall the viiSlim 

 of his own ignorance and raflmefs. 



Queen Anne continued the bounty of her prede- 

 cefTors, with the addition of feveral Plates. Her royal 

 confort George prince of Denmark is faid to have been 

 remarkably fond of horfc-races, and to have obtained 

 from the queen the grants of feveral plates, allotted to 

 different places. The author of a work in 12 mo. re- 

 lating to the antiquity and progrefs of horfe-races, 8cc. 

 printed in the year i 7 69, fays, that in the reign of this 

 princefs, gentlemen bred their horfes fo fine, for the 



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