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Mr. Rarey's pamphlet first published in Ohio.--Experience of old system.--Compiled and invented new.--Tying up the fore-leg known many years ago, _see_ Stamford Almanack.--Forgotten and not valued.--Reference to Captain Nolan's and Colonel Greenwood's works on horsemanship.--D...
In England there are so few wild horses, that the following description of a visit I made to Exmoor a few years ago in the month of September, may be doubly interesting, since M...
19. CHAPTER VIII.Value of good horsemanship to both sexes.--On teaching children.--Anecdote.--Havelock's opinion.--Rarey's plan to train ponies.--The use of books.--Necessity of regular teaching...
12. CHAPTER I.Mr. Rarey's pamphlet first published in Ohio.--Experience of old system.--Compiled and invented new.--Tying up the fore-leg known many years ago, _see_ Stamford Almanack.--Forgo...
22. CHAPTER XI.How eagerly forward they rush; In a moment how widely they spread; Have at him there, Hotspur. Hush, hush! 'Tis a find, or I'll forfeit my head. Now fast flies the fox, and stil...
17. CHAPTER VI.Taming a colt or horse.--Rarey's directions for strapping up and laying down detailed.--Explanations by Editor.--To approach a vicious horse with half door.--Cartwheel.--No. 1 s...
18. CHAPTER VII.The Drum.--The Umbrella.--Riding-habit.--How to bit a colt.--How to saddle.--To mount.--To ride.--To break.--To harness.--To make a horse follow and stand without holding.--Bauc...
21. CHAPTER X."The sailor who rides on the ocean, Delights when the stormy winds blow: Wind and steam, what are they to horse motion? Sea cheers to a land Tally-ho? The canvas, the screw, and...
20. CHAPTER IX.On bits.--The snaffle.--The use of the curb.--The Pelham.--The Hanoverian bit described.--Martingales.--The gentleman's saddle to be large enough.--Spurs.--Not to be too sharp.-...
16. CHAPTER V.Powell's system of approaching a colt.--Haley's remarks on.--Lively high-spirited horses tamed easily.--Stubborn sulky ones more difficult.--Motto, "Fear, love and obey."--Use o...
15. CHAPTER IV.How to drive a colt from pasture.--How to drive into a stable.--The kind of halter.--Experiment with a robe or cloak.--Horse-taming drugs.--The Editor's remarks.--Importance of...
23. CHAPTER XII.Hunting terms are difficult to write, because they are often rather sung than said. I shall take as my authority one of the best sportsmen of his day, Mr. Thomas Smith, author o...
24. CHAPTER XIII.The origin of modern fox-hunting is involved in a degree of obscurity which can only be attributed to the illiterate character of the originators, the Squire Westerns, who rode...
14. CHAPTER III.The three fundamental principles of the Rarey Theory.--Heads of the Rarey Lectures.--Editor's paraphrase.--That any horse may be taught docility.--That a horse should be so hand...
13. CHAPTER II.Mr. Rarey's American Pamphlet would make about fifty pages of this type, if given in full; but, in revising my Illustrated Edition, I have decided on omitting six pages of Intro...
1. CHAPTER I.Mr. Rarey's pamphlet first published in Ohio.--Experience of old system.--Compiled and invented new.--Tying up the fore-leg known many years ago, _see_ Stamford Almanack.--Forgo...
11. CHAPTER XIV.TO FACE 1. ZEBRA STRAPPED UP Drawn by Louis Huard, Esq. Title-page 2. HORSE WITH STRAP NO. 1 Ditto " 67 3. HORSE WITH STRAPS NOS. 1 AND 2 Ditto " 76 4. THE HORSE STRUGGLING Ditt...
7. CHAPTER VIII.Value of good horsemanship to both sexes.--On teaching children.--Anecdote.--Havelock's opinion.--Rarey's plan to train ponies.--The use of books.--Necessity of regular teaching...
8. CHAPTER IX.On bits.--The snaffle.--The use of the curb.--The Pelham.--The Hanoverian bit described.--Martingales.--The gentleman's saddle to be large enough.--Spurs.--Not to be too sharp.-...
4. CHAPTER V.Powell's system of approaching a colt.--Rarey's remarks on.--Lively high-spirited horses tamed easily.--Stubborn sulky ones more difficult.--Motto, "Fear, love and obey."--Use o...
5. CHAPTER VI.Taming a colt or horse.--Rarey's directions for strapping up and laying down detailed.--Explanations by Editor.--To approach a vicious horse with half door.--Cartwheel.--No. 1 s...
9. CHAPTER X.Advantage of hunting.--Libels on.--Great men who have hunted.--Popular notion unlike reality.--Dick Christian and the Marquis of Hastings.--Fallacy of "lifting" a horse refuted....
2. CHAPTER III.The three fundamental principles of the Rarey Theory.--Heads of the Rarey Lectures.--Editor's paraphrase.--That any horse may be taught docility.--That a horse should be so hand...
3. CHAPTER IV.How to drive a colt from pasture.--How to drive into a stable.--The kind of halter.--Experiment with a robe or cloak.--Horse-taming drugs.--The Editor's remarks.--Importance of...
6. CHAPTER VII.The Drum.--The Umbrella.--Riding-habit.--How to bit a colt.--How to saddle.--To mount.--To ride.--To break.--To harness.--To make a horse follow and stand without holding.--Bauc...
10. CHAPTER XI.