Graceful Riding
by Samuel C. Wayte
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wayte, Samuel C.
- Title
- Graceful Riding: A Pocket Manual for Equestrians
- Credits
- Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- SF: Agriculture: Animal culture
- Subject
- Horsemanship
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 36701
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36701
- Release Date
- July 11, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.GRACEFUL RIDING. A POCKET MANUAL FOR EQUESTRIANS.
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.INTRODUCTION.
- 4.DESCRIPTION OF PLATES.
- 5.PART I. — CHARACTER AND MANAGEMENT OF THE HORSE, WITH DIRECTIONS FOR RIDING. — ON PROPERLY FIXING THE BRIDLE, SADDLE, &c. — THE BRIDLE. — THE SADDLE — THE STIRRUPS. — ON MOUNTING. — POSITION IN THE SADDLE.
- 6.PART II. — ON THE REINS, &c. — FOR HOLDING THE REINS IN ONE HAND. — USING BOTH HANDS. — RIDING ON ONE REIN. — THE WHIP.
- 7.PART III. — ON THE PACES OF THE HORSE. — THE WALK. — THE TROT. — THE CANTER. — TURNING. — REINING BACK. — STOPPING. — LEAPING. — THE STANDING LEAP. — FLYING LEAP. — SWIMMING A HORSE. — BOLTING, OR RUNNING AWAY.
- 8.PART IV. — ADVICE TO LADIES. — THE HABIT. — MOUNTING. — RULES FOR GAINING THE CORRECT POSITION IN THE SADDLE. — THE POSITION IN THE SADDLE. — THE ARMS. — THE LEGS. — THE STIRRUP. — THE STIRRUP TOO LONG. — THE BRIDLE HAND. — GUIDING. — DISMOUNTING. — MAXIMS TO BE ATTENDED TO. — WALKING AND RIDING. — REMARKS ON SADDLERY. — BRIDLES. — THE THROAT LASH. — NOSE BAND. — CHIN STRAP.
- 9.THE EQUESTRIAN’S MANUAL.
- 10.MR. S. C. WAITE,
- 11.TESTIMONIALS.
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