INDEX 



Jersey, Lord, on Shuttlecock's dis- 

 inclination to jump, i6i, 162. 



Jersey, Lord, riding at timber, 23. 



"John Gilpin" quoted, 71. 



Johnston, Sir Frederic, not using 

 spurs, 62. 



"Jorrocks" as hard rider, 125. 



"Jorrocks" on seat, 89. 



Judicious coercion, 15. 



Jumping, advice on, 75, 7S. 



Jumping timber, 22 ; examples of 

 different methods, 22, 23. 



Juvenal, metaphor from horses, 154. 



K 



" King of the Golden Mines," 22S. 

 Kingsley, Charles, "Knight's Last 



Leap at Alten-ahr " quoted, 68. 

 Knight, stag-hunting on Exmoor, 



199. 

 Knightley, Sir Charles, training 



"Sir Marinel," 160. 



Ladies in hunting-field, advice to, 

 117, 118. 



Ladies' pluck in riding, example 

 of, 115. 



Ladies using spur, 60. 



Lawrenson, General, horsemanship, 

 SI, 86. 



Leg-power, use of, in riding, 72. 



Liverpool, pace and distance of the, 

 158. 



Lovell, of New Forest, horseman- 

 ship, 17. 



Lovell, invention for bridoon, 39. 



Lowther, Hugh, not using spurs, 62, 



M 



Man's supremacy over beasts, reason 

 of, 16. 



"Mars," Lord Cardigan's hunter, 

 III. 



Martingale unknown to Greeks, 35, 

 Mason, Jena — 



Instructions to beginner, 73. 



Using spurs, 64. 



Warning to Lord Strathmore, 

 106. 

 Matthew's tactics, 214, 219. 

 Maxse, fineness of hand, 32. 

 Mayo, Lord — 



Horse ridden with Pytchley, 169. 



Horsemanship, 129. 



Story of Irish attendant, 130. 

 Mechanical horse in Piccadilly, ac- 

 count of, 93 seq. 

 Melton-Spinney, 148. 



Hounds killing by moonlight in, 



235- 

 Melton Steeplechase (1864), 84. 

 Melton, weighing hunters at, 168. 

 Mesmer, disciples of, 16. 

 Mexican spurs, 67. 

 Middleham Moor, 156. 

 Miles, Colonel, jumping six - foot 



fence, 132. 

 Morgan, Ben, story of, 9. 



N 



Nerve and pluck, 104, 107. 

 Newmarket Heath, 156. 

 Nirarod on horses' strength, 167. 

 Nose - band, author's prejudice 

 against, 19. 



O 



Oriental cavalry soldier, position in 

 saddle, 90. 



Payne, Charles, on "natural death " 

 of foxes, 189. 



Pearson, General, charging timber, 

 22. 



Pelham bridle unpopular in Eng- 

 land, 42. 



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