Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece / or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding

ovement.-To dismount in movement.-To vault on at a halt.-Circus for practisin

she should give the left foot, this should be kept precisely under the weight; if it is given forward (which is the common error) each person is pushed backward one from the other. This should be practised on any piece of fu

he upper part of the stirrup-iron; take a hop forward facing the saddle and turning your toe to the horse's front without touching his side, take the cantle with the right hand and up. Or in movement. If the horse moves on, he only spares you the previous hop, and by walking or running backward with him y

right hand to the pummel, and as you descend, the left hand to the flap. With the strength of both arms throw your feet forward in the direction in which the horse is going, this may be done at a gallop. To vau

easiest way is to take the mane as directed for mounting and to jump from the l

or staves; take the stirrups off, tie a string over the flaps and the horse's head loosely to this-a man with a driving whip in the

he horse's elbows, bring the back of the right leg on to the top of the saddle, and let yourself down to the full stretch of your right arm; this is very easy at the hal

into the saddle facing to the tail. If M. Cui Bono remarks that the last two feats are, like others which I might detail, useless, I answer, that the practice of no feat o