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Index, 



Handling, school method, 210. 



Hard mouth, 112, 113. 



Head and neck, Bancher's position of, 



"5- 

 Head and neck, overhanging, 49. 

 Head, Sir F., on seat, 84, 85. 

 Hoof-tracks, 41. 

 Hook-curb, 172. 

 Horse-breaking, 116. 

 Hungarian saddle, 58, 102, 103. 

 Hunting seat, 83. 



Jaw, lower, 131. 

 Jockey, dumb, 220. 

 Jockey's saddle and seat, 81. 

 Jointed mouthpieces, 178. 



Kicking, 250. 



Length of bars of bit, 162. 

 Length of curb, 171. 

 Length of stirrup, 66, 67. 

 Lever action in saddles, 59. 

 Levers, orders of, 158. 

 Line of bearing, 163. 

 Load of cavalry horse, 99, 100. 

 Load of sumpter-horse, 97. 

 Lounging, 212. 

 Lower jaw, 131. 



Marochetti's statuettes, 107. 

 Military seat, 94-108. 

 Monboddo bone, 78. 

 Mouth-gauge, igi. 

 Mouthpiece, 173-182, 

 Mouth, width of, 135, 



Narrow throat, 129. 



Neck and head, Baucher's position, 



"5. 

 Neck and head, overhanging, 49. 

 Noseband, 15a 



Orders of levers, 158, 



Pack, cavalry, 105. 



Pelham, 179. 



Place of the bit in horse's mouth, 169. 



Place of the curb, 171. 

 Place of the girth, 61-63. 

 Place of the saddle, 59-61. 

 Plate, felt, 69. 

 Plunging, 241. 



Port of mouthpiece, 173, 174, 

 Position of stirrup, 64-66. 

 Pull on the reins, 124- 



Rach-horse weights, 100, loi. 

 Rearing, 242. 

 Reins, running, 154. 

 Restiveness, causes of, 222. 

 Riding, natural cavalry, 138. 

 Road-riding, 87. 



Saddle-flaps, 68. 



Saddle, Hungarian, 58, 102, 103. 



Saddle, lever action in, 59. 



Saddle, place of, 59-61. 



School method of handling, 210. 



Seat, good and bad, Mr. Apperley on, 86 



87. 

 Seat, hunting, 83. 

 Seat, jockey's, 81. 

 Seat, military, 94-108. 

 Seat, " tongs across a wall," 87, 96. 

 Seat, wabh-ball, 84. 

 Short shoeing, 93. 

 Sitting-bones, 78. 

 Skeleton of horse, 23. 

 Snaffle, 147. 

 Snaffle, twisted, 149. 

 Soft and hard mouth, 111-113. 

 Standing stifi^ 163. 

 Statuettes, Marochetti's, 107. 

 Steppers, short and long, 44 

 Stirrup, length of, 66, 67. 

 Stirrup, position of, 64-66. 

 Strangles, 130. 

 Sumpter-horse load, 97. 

 Surcingle, 62, 63. 

 Surface of saddle, 68. 



Throat, narrow, 1*9, 

 "Tongs across a wall," 87, 96, 

 Tongue-cliannel, 137. 

 Trager, 91. 



