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legs but prevent with the hands, and thus you 

 would baffle and confuse the horse. The whip 

 and other aids must never be contradictory to the 

 intention expressed by the hands." 



So much depends on the hand in riding, that 

 all the different masters who have written on it 

 agree in opinion, that it is the hand which makes 

 the horseman. The Duke of Newcastle says : — 

 " It is not a good bridle that breaks the horse, 

 for if they were made tractable by means of this 

 piece of iron put into their mouths, the bit-makers 

 would be the best horsemen in the world, but it 

 is in lessons well applied to the nature, spirit, and 

 strength of every horse, that the great and subtle 

 science of horsemanship consists; that science 

 can manage a horse with only a bit of wood in 

 his mouth, and it is not the bridle but the art of 

 the master that renders the horse tractable." 



A good horseman should have a light hand. 

 When he rides with both reins, he should hold 

 them quite smooth through his forefingers, a 

 rein between each finger ; the snaffle-rein upper- 



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