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

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

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

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HINTS ON HORSEMANSHIP,
TO
A Nephew and Niece;
OR,
COMMON SENSE AND COMMON ERRORS IN
COMMON RIDING.

BY

COLONEL GEORGE GREENWOOD,
Late Lieut.-Col. commanding 2nd Life Guards.

NEW EDITION.

LONDON:
EDWARD MOXON & CO., DOVER STREET.
1861.


LONDON
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.


CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I.
MILITARY RIDING NOT FIT FOR COMMON RIDING.

PAGE
Throughout Europe there is only one style of riding taught 2
That is the soldier’s one-handed style 2
Two hands should be used to the reins 5
A soldier’s horse must turn on the wrong rein 7
Common riders generally turn their horses on the wrong rein 9
Result of this with colts or restive horses 10
Indications are not aids 12

CHAPTER II.
HOLDING AND HANDLING THE REINS.

Reins at full length 14
The downward clutch 16
The Grecian mode of holding and handling the reins 18
The side clutch 20
The two reins crossed in one hand 21
A rein in each hand 23
Turn to the right, and left 26
The hunting hand 26
The rough-rider’s hand 27
Fixing the hands 28

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