10 PARK RIDING. 



your seat. Every change in the position of the 

 horse must be met by a corresponding change in 

 the position of the rider to make him maintain 

 his seat with elegance. 



The seat is our next consideration. " A good 

 seat," says the Duke of Newcastle, " is of such 

 importance, that the regular movements of the 

 horse entirely depend upon it, which is preferable 

 to any other assistance, therefore let it not be de- 

 spised. Moreover," adds his Grace, " I dare ven- 

 ture to affirm, that he who does not sit genteelly 

 upon a horse, will never make a good horseman." 



Perhaps the most perfect idea of a Park rider 

 that we can give, is an English gentleman sitting 

 in the Grrecian Seat on a well-broke Spanish 

 horse, which the noble author we have just 

 quoted calls the. king of horses. The Queen's 

 Ride, or Kotten Row, the most fashionable resort 

 of the votaries of the equestrian art, including 

 the high-born and wealthy nobility of the Court 

 of England, and the most distinguished and 

 splendid company in the world, is the best open 



