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CHAPTER IX. COMMENTARIES ON BAUCHER.
BAUCHER was certainly the greatest and most clever high-school rider we have ever had.[1] There is no doubt that he did not invent the high school, which is the result of the work of many generations of horsemen, but he invented and co-ordinated a new and astonishing method. Prior to his time, no horseman had obtained such marvellous results. He conquered many difficulties, and removed a great number of obstacles which a man who wishes to break-in a school horse always meets.
He invented new exercises, which he did with remarkable
As regards myself, I claim to be a follower of Baucher. My teacher, François Caron, was his pupil. I have thoroughly studied the method of Baucher in all its parts. Without Baucher I would not know as much as I do of riding.
I would be very ungrateful to mention the name of Baucher without at the same time rendering well-merited homage to his rival, Victor Franconi, from whom I have received many excellent lessons. By his pluck, strength of seat, and by the impulse he gave to his horses, his style of equitation resembled much more that of Count d'Aure than that of Baucher.
The names of the masters to whom the horsemen of to-day are beholden would form a long list. France can boast of an admirable host of great horsemen. If Italy can name Pignatelli ; England, Newcastle ; and Germany, Count von Schweppe, France can put forward hundreds of illustrious names, at the head of which shine—to speak only of bygone celebrities—such horsemen as Dupaty de Clam, La Guérinière, the Chevalier d'Abzac, the Marquis of Bigne, and others. The School of Hanover, which is the most celebrated of foreign schools, is the direct offspring of the great school of Versailles. Beyond all dispute, France is the classic country of equitation. ↩︎