Transcriber's Note
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of corrections is found at the end of the text.
THE YOUNG LADY'S EQUESTRIAN MANUAL.
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E.LANDELLS.S.
LONDON. WHITEHEAD AND COMP^Y. 76, FLEET STREET. MDCCCXXXVIII.
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PREFACE.
The following pages contain a Treatise on the Art of Riding on Horseback, for Ladies, which originally appeared in the Publishers' well-known Manual of elegant feminine Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits, THE YOUNG LADY'S BOOK; with, however, various additions to the Text, and a number of new Illustrations and Embellishments.
In offering the Treatise, thus improved and adorned, in a separate form, the Publishers, it need scarcely be said, have been influenced, materially, by that high and most extensive patronage, which, under Royal auspices, has been conferred by the ladies of this country, since the commencement of the present reign, on the Art of which it is the subject.
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CONTENTS.
Page INTRODUCTION 7 EQUESTRIAN TECHNICALITIES 23 THE LADY'S HORSE 26 PERSONAL EQUIPMENTS 31 ACCOUTREMENTS FOR THE HORSE 33 RULES OF THE ROAD 34 MODE OF MOUNTING 36 MANAGEMENT OF THE REINS 41 THE SEAT AND BALANCE 44 AIDS AND DEFENCES 51 SOOTHINGS AND ANIMATIONS 55 CORRECTIONS 58 VICES 60 EXERCISES IN THE PACES 71 THE WALK 73 THE TROT 79 THE CANTER 81 THE GALLOP 84 STOPPING AND BACKING 85 LEAPING 87 DISMOUNTING 91 CONCLUDING REMARKS 95
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THE YOUNG LADY'S EQUESTRIAN MANUAL.
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Our Virgin Queen, peerless Elizabeth, With grace and dignity rode through the host: And proudly paced that gallant steed, as though He knew his saddle was a royal throne.
INTRODUCTION.
Riding on Horseback is, confessedly, one of the most graceful, agreeable, and salutary of feminine recreations. No attitude, perhaps, can be regarded as more elegant than that of a lady in the modern side-saddle; nor can any exercise be deemed capable of affording more rational and innocent delight, than that of the female equestrian. Pursued in the open air, it affords a most rapid, and, at the same time, exhilarating succession of scenic changes, at a degree of personal exertion, sufficient to produce immediate pleasure, without inducing the subsequent languor of fatigue.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: The Young Lady's Equestrian Manual by Anonymous
- 2: It shall be covered with velvet red
- 3: Wrong in ascribing the fashion of riding sideways
- 4: Good pacers beating other horses at a gallop
- 5: The pillion in this country has not yet become obsolete
- 6: Supposing it to be double reined
- 7: The neck rather arched and muscular
- 8: Is indispensable to the female equestrian
- 9: As regards female equestrianism
- 10: When her hand is on the crutch
- 11: Until the knuckles are uppermost
- 12: So that she do not permit it to appear ungraceful
- 13: Although hanging by the left crutch of the saddle
- 14: And the rider throw herself abruptly forward
- 15: So as to throw his croup in some degree to the right
- 16: Severe flogging seldom produces any good effect
- 17: When he shewed an inclination to abate his speed
- 18: His croup will be turned outward
- 19: Stumbling is not merely unpleasant
- 20: If the rider should foresee his intention
- 21: The pupil should gradually practise
- 22: Working on a circle is called a volt
- 23: To begin the canter previously to the trot
- 24: And at once conclude the cadence
- 25: The rider should bring the horse together
- 26: She may dismount without assistance