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A Compendious Treatife of the 

 Art of RIDING. 



CHAP. I. 



Of what Stature and Age a Horfe Jbould be that 



is designed, for the Manage. 



HOrfesof a middle fize have commonly moft 

 Strength, Spirit, and Agility, and not one 

 in a hundred but proves good *, when of 

 large Horfes not one in a thoufand. Make choice 

 therefore of a fhort trufTed Horfe, well coupled, 

 with good Feet and Legs, lively, full of Spirit and 

 A&ion. And altho' great Mailers fay, that if a Horfe 

 have a great Head, thick Neck, and flefhy Shoulders, 

 he will be hard on the Hand ', yet the Duke of Ntxs- 

 caftle obferves,that he had known more Thick- Heads, 

 Nech, and Shoulders, to be light on the Hand, than 

 he had known of fine fiaped and fiender Fore- Hands, 

 and that 'tis neither the one nor the other that cau- 

 fes it, but meerly the ftrength of his Chine* For 

 if a Horfe that hath a great Head, thick Neck, and 

 flefhy Shoulders, have alfo a good Chine, he will be 

 light on the hand : Provided there be no Imperfe- 

 ction in his Legs or Feet, efpecially Before, for then 

 he will lean on the Hand, to eafe the grief of his 

 Legs : And the Farrier mult cure him and not the 

 Horfeman. For the Art of Riding will not make a 

 lame Horfe found. 



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