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motion of the horse, must act with more precision, 

 delicacy, and exactness. 



111. Training and managing Horses. 



It will now be proper to give some plain direc- 

 tions to riders how to manage themselves, as v/ell as 

 hov/ to manage their horses. The two subjects are 

 closely connected; and will be best considered in 

 conjunction. 



112. Method of placing the Wider. 



It is necessary that the gre^atest attention, and the 

 same gentleness that is used in teaching the horses, 

 be observed likewise in teaching the rider, especially 

 at the beginning. Every method and art must be 

 practised to create and preserve, both in man and 

 horse, all possible feeling and sensibility ; contrary 

 to the usage of most riding-masters, who seem in- 

 dustriously to labour at abolishing these principles 

 both in the one and the oth.er. As so many essen- 

 tial points depend upon the manner in which a ir^an 

 is at first placed on horseback, it ought to be consi- 

 dered and attended to with the strictest care and 

 exactness. 



The first time a man is put on horseback, it ought 

 to be upon a very gentle horse. He never should be 

 made to trot till he is quite easy in the walk ; nor 

 gallop till he is able to trot properly. The same 

 must be observed in regard to horses ; they should 

 never be made to trot till they are obedient, and 

 their mouths are v^ell formed on a walk ; nor be 

 made to gallop, till the same be effected on a trot. 

 When he is arrived at such a degree of firmness in 

 his seat, the more he trots, and the more he rides 

 rough horses, the better. This is not only the best 

 method, but also the easiest and the shortest : by it 

 a man is soon made sufficiently an horseman for a 



