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conditions, on the road or in the Hunting field, 

 and for this purpose only a few simple move- 

 ments are necessary. Before proceeding to deal 

 with them, however, perhaps it would be as 

 well to refer to what Mr. E. L. Anderson has 

 to say on the subject. Indeed he sums up the 

 whole situation so well that he may be fully 

 quoted. 



'' Except in the higher training of horses, the 

 English are far and away the best horsemen 

 in the world. It is because I believed this, 

 and because I felt the importance of better 

 methods of training than those now employed 

 in this country that I have so often ventured 

 to address English horsemen upon the subject 

 of thorough schooling. In breeding horses, in 

 rearing, and in caring for them, in racing them 

 and in riding them across country the English- 

 man is easily first. . . . But there is one form 

 of the art in which he fails ; that is in so suppling 

 and uniting the horse that the animal is under 

 immediate and certain control; he looks upon 

 the spur as simply an instrument to incite the 

 horse to greater speed, and loses more than 

 half of the control that one should have over 

 the animal by neglecting that discipline of the 

 rider's legs which is not only a power in itself 

 but is of the greatest assistance to the hand." 



The lessons for the ordinary horseman to learn 

 from the school, and which he will find useful 

 to him, are broadly indicated in the passage I have 

 quoted from Mr, Anderson. They consist of 



