THE REASONED EQUITATION 



odists, as a whole, are too sure of their general 

 principles. They want to have every horse put 

 through the hard-and-fast progression of their 

 particular method. But my experience is that each 

 individual horse has its own physical and moral 

 disposition, and that each needs its own special 

 treatment and training. 



This much, at any rate, is certain: no matter how 

 the horse's education commences or proceeds, the 

 earlier portions of it will need more care, more 

 ability, and more experience on the part of the 

 trainer than the later ones. I am, then, fully agreed 

 with Baucher in his criticism of owners who give 

 young horses to their stable grooms to train. And 

 yet, in Baucher's time, equitation was in high 

 esteem. Whereas now horsemanship is almost a lost 

 art, and riding is thought of merely as a wholesome 

 exercise. 



