A New System of Horsemanship

THE Hand therefore, with respect to these Properties, must operate in part, and within certain Degrees; and depends upon being more or less felt, or yielded to the Horse, or wit...

THE Pillar partly owes its Origin to the famous _Pignatelli_[1]. Mess. _de la Broue_ and _Pluvinel_, who were his Scholars, brought it first into _France_; the first indeed made...

WE will suppose then a Person, the Position of whose Body is just and regular, and who, by being able to sit down perpendicular and full in his Saddle, can feel and unite himsel...

IF he has any Seeds of the _Ramingue_ in him, his Action will be short and _together_; but it will be retain'd and loitering, the Horse craving the Aids, and only advancing in p...

THIS sort of Passades was heretofore used in private Combats, and although it may appear that the Time that is employed in making the half Stop is lost, and only hinders you fro...

TO go backwards in _Curvets_, aid with the outward Rein, you will confine the Fore-part, and widen the Hind-legs, which ought to be at liberty, because it is with them that he l...

A _restive_ Horse is one that refuses to go forward, who standing still in the same Place, defends himself, and resists his Rider in several different Manners; it is much to be...

_IT is not my Design, in the Task I undertake of giving some Account of this Work, as well as of the Art which is the Subject of it, to trace its Origin back into past Times, or...

A HORSE which can't stop readily, misemploys very often his Strength in running; examine him, and you will find that he abandons himself entirely upon his Shoulders; consider li...

TO make this Air just and perfect, it is necessary that the Action of the Leap be finish'd as in the _Caprioles_, except that it ought to be more _extended_, and the _Pesade_ wh...