EIDING SCHOOL EXERCISES. 



It is not to be expected that anyone 

 can ride well without having been syste- 

 matically taught, and without having re- 

 mained long enough under instruction to 

 become thoroughly familiar with the system 

 followed. In this country the army system 

 may be considered the best for all practical 

 purposes, and, as already stated, it has 

 been made the basis of the school instruc- 

 tions in this manual, subject to modification 

 when necessary. 



Some people on the continent still culti- 

 vate the ancient and elaborate horseman- 

 ship, once so much admired as the result of 

 the highest training in horse and man, but 

 generally deemed by our countrymen to be 

 too theatrical and ornate. Movements 

 like the pictffe and croupade have been 

 relegated to the arena, and the tendency 

 now is to make our riding exercises more 

 simple and practical. Even in our army 



