INDEX 



Anger derogatory to dignity of 

 man, 12. 



Angerstein, of Weeting, horsennan- 

 ship, 54. 



Anglesey, Lord, riding hack round 

 corner of Albemarle Street, 85. 



Arab foal, docility of, 8, 



Author, experience in horseman- 

 ship, 2. 



Author's mare, 5. 



Aylesbury, Vale of, 148. 



Carted deer hunted in, 200, 201. 



B 



Baucher, principles of equine educa- 

 tion, 52, 86. 

 Beaufort, Duke of, aptitude for 



fox-hunting, 177. 

 Bel voir hounds, 211, 212, 



Killing by moonlight, 235. 

 Benvolio, Sir Charles Knightley's 



hunter, 161. 

 Billesdon Coplow poem quoted, 



161, 225. 

 Bissett, stag-hounds, 195. 

 Bissett, stag-hunting, 197. 

 Bit, half-moon, 55. 

 Bit, importance of its fitting, 18. 

 Blackmoor Vale, Lord Wolverton's 



hounds in, 207. 

 Blackmoor Vale under pasture, 



223. 

 Bower, Rev. John, leap over stile 



and stepping-stones, 80. 



Boyce, Captain, not using spurs, 



62. 

 Brendon, 199. 



Bridle, control by means of, 70. 

 Bridle, use of, 32 seq. 

 Bridoon, 39. 



Brood mare in Ireland, 140. 

 Brooks, crossing, 114. 

 Byron quoted on wolf, 196. 



Cardigan, Lord, narrow escapes 



from drowning, 1 12. 

 Cardigan, Lord, valour. III. 

 Carington, Lord, riding at timber, 



23- 

 Carted deer, hunting, 201. 

 Challenger, 214, 215. 

 Charmer, 215, 217. 

 Chifney, treatise on handling, 83. 

 Coercion for rash horse, 18 ; for 



"slug," 24. 

 Cooke, John, on Sir Charles Knight- 

 ley training Sir Marinel, i6r. 

 Cooke, William, Advance owned 



by, 162. 

 Cottesmore, 236. 

 Coventry, Captain — 

 Jumping brook at Melton 



Steeplechase (1864), 84. 

 Not using spurs, 62. 

 On use of spurs, 64. 

 Cox, Fred, as huntsman, 201. 

 Crick, 148. 

 Curb-bit, 39. 

 Custance, qualities as jockey, 18. 



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