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saddle, and every riding lesson, judiciously given, 

 will improve the horse for driving. 



The training cf a horse which is to be finally 

 put into a team, may be advantageously continued 

 by driving him single, to a dog-cart, where, the 

 whip replacing the spur, some of the same effects 

 obtained under the saddle may be repeated ; and 

 the method of training by driving on foot with 

 the long reins, described by Captain Haves in his 

 Illustrated Horse Breaking, may be also used with 

 great advantage, at all stages of the work. 



In our American climate, with so many winter 

 days on which riding out of doors with any pleasure 

 is impossible, the amateur will find that the hours 

 passed on the tan of the riding-house, in training a 

 favourite horse, according to some good system, will 

 be among the pleasantest of his ' horsey' pastimes. 



All professional riding-masters have intentionally, 

 or unconsciously, made use of one or other of the 

 old methods, or of a combination of them, generally 

 imparted by tradition. 



When Baucher's book (translated into English 

 by John Sergeant and George H. Boker, of 

 Philadelphia, in 1851) first appeared in America, * 

 some amateurs who had been working somewhat 

 blindly on the old systems, recognised its value, 

 especially when illustrated by the beautiful perform- 



* The first edition of Baucher's book was published in Paris in 

 1S42. 



