4 PAEK RIDING. 



equestrian art to young beginners. The skill of 

 the master, and the fitness of the horse, are alike 

 necessary to enable the pupil to learn the prin- 

 ciples of the art of riding ; but the riding masters 

 of the present day, like their predecessors in times 

 long past, teach that style of riding which is 

 called in the schools The Menage, and insist that 

 it must ever remain to be the foundation of all 

 good riding. This for school riding is quite 

 correct. 



In this work, it is the intention of the author 

 to carry instruction beyond the point at which 

 the schools leave oif; or, in other words, to 

 perfect the pupil by a course of lessons given in 

 the extensive area of Hyde Park or a common 

 road, rather than in the practice of the theory 

 tau2;ht on the circumscribed area of the ridino^ 

 school. To do this with effect, the author 

 ventures to assert that all the skill and experience 

 of a perfect master of the art of riding are re- 

 quired. Many authors have written for the 

 schools, and no doubt the schools for dressing, im- 



