INDEX, 



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Races in the East, 19, 20 ; large stakes at racing meetings, 64 ; 

 ancient racing, 290-292. 



Racing Stock, rearing of, 36-41. 



Racing Stud, expenses of, 62-64. 



Road-riding, 237-243. 



Roebuck, (The) not now an object of the chase, 431, 432. 



Romans, (The) use of Horses among them, 3 ; post-horses used 

 by, 152; derived their knowledge of horsemanship from the 

 Greeks, 217 ; hunting at one time discouraged among, 374. 



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Saddle, the importance of a good one, 282 ; antiquity of the, 

 284-288 ; first woman's saddle, 289 ; hunting-saddle described, 

 289. 



Scotch Horses, 162-163. 



Seat on Horseback, 230-535 ; the military seat, 223-225 ; seat 

 on the road, 237-243; the hunting seat, 243-246 ; seat of the 

 jockey, 292-298. 



Shoulders of the Horse, 46 ; of the hunter, 84, 85 ; diseases in, 

 496. 



Sir Teddy, remarkable power of endurance of this pony, 130. 



Smith, (Mr.) his system of ' earth -stopping,' 407, 408. 



Solomon, a horse-dealer, 476. 



SoMERviLLE, his poem, ' The Chase,' mentioned, 377. 



Soundness and Unsoundness in Horses, 480, 481 ; 487. 



Speed of the race-horse, 61, 62 ; of fox-hounds, 450. 



Spur, (The) use of by the ancients, and as used at present, 289, 

 290 ; preferable to the whip in racing, 303. 



Stables, importance of comfortable, 196-200. 



Stag, (The) his powers of endui'ance, 423. 



Stag-hound, (The) 324-326 ; his original appearance, 360, 361 ; 

 his appearance in the days of George III. 



Stag-hunting, 414 ; Nimrod's account of stag-hunting in Devon- 

 shire, 416-420 ; technical terms used in, 421 ; account of the 

 Royal Hunt, 425-431. 



Stakes, value of, 64. 



Stallions, choice of, 29 ; more important than of mares in the 

 production of racing stock, 32 ; importance of, in breeding 

 hunters, 72-74. 



Steeple-Chase, this system of sporting deprecated, 309 ; qualifi- 

 cations of a steeple-chase rider, 310, 311. 



Stewart's, (Mr.) definition of a sound Horse, 487-489. 



