CONTENTS.

Preface vii

Translator's Preface ix

CHAPTER I. HORSE AND MAN.

The Horse—Feeding—Intelligence of the Horse—Influence of a Man's expression of face on a Horse—Influence of the Human Voice on a Horse—Making much of a Horse—Punishment—Bitting—Martingale—Saddle—Stirrups—Cutting Whip—Spurs—Man's Seat—Lady's Seat 1 to 31

CHAPTER II. ORDINARY RIDING.

Lunging a Horse—Close work, advancing—Collecting a Horse and direct Flexion—Objects to be obtained by direct Flexion—Making a Horse quiet to mount—How to hold the Reins—Teaching a Horse by the Whip to obey legs and spurs—Horse mounted, first Defences, means for overcoming them—The Walk—To halt and stand still—Changes of Direction—Lateral flexions—Objects of Lateral flexions—Rotation of the Croup and Shoulders—School Walk—The rein back—The ramener, collection, rassembler, and equestrian tact—Side steps and two tracks—The trot—The canter—Voltes and demi voltes at the canter—Changes of leg—The Hack 32 to 183

CHAPTER III. HORSES WITH VICES.

Nervous Horses—Horses which throw their heads about—Horses which run away 184 to 194