VUl PREFACE. 



Modern Horsemanship was the first work in 

 any language in which Moment- Photography was 

 employed to explain and teach a physical exercise. 

 The idea of using the camera for this purpose 

 occurred to me upon the appearance of The Horse 

 ill Motion in the spring of 1882. In the autumn 

 of that year I began my experiments with a 

 ' quick-shutter ' (having previously prepared a set 

 of plates showing the horse and rider in various 

 still positions), and in July of the following year 

 the neofatives for the first edition of Modern 

 Horsemanship were in the hands of the Autotype 

 Company for reproduction. 



The Photographs. 



With the exception of one figure, that of an 

 Arab horse ridden by Mr. Oscar Fritz in the 

 gallop-change, all of the schooled horses repre- 

 sented in this work were trained by the Author, 

 and were ridden by him or by his son. In ob- 

 taining the negatives a single camera was em- 

 ployed, and there was, of course, much difficulty 

 in catching the movements at the exact moment. 

 This difficulty was particularly present in photo- 

 graphing the gallop-change, and out of nearly 

 two hundred experiments I obtained only some 



