The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . e in France, and, curiously enough, the namemost generally associated with the arts of themanege is that of an Englishman, M. James earliest principles of French horsemanshipcame from Italv, and they underwent a long andgradual adaptation to their new home. In thoseages the horse furnished the onlv means of gettingfrom place to place, and the use of vehicles of anykind was practicallv confined to the Court. Thetraining of the horse consequently assumed animportance that it has by degrees lost, and cannevermo
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . e in France, and, curiously enough, the namemost generally associated with the arts of themanege is that of an Englishman, M. James earliest principles of French horsemanshipcame from Italv, and they underwent a long andgradual adaptation to their new home. In thoseages the horse furnished the onlv means of gettingfrom place to place, and the use of vehicles of anykind was practicallv confined to the Court. Thetraining of the horse consequently assumed animportance that it has by degrees lost, and cannevermore regain. Whether this superseding ofso noble an animal is entirely matter for re-joicing need not here occupy us ; it is a fact, andthat suffices. In the older days of chivalry the handling ofhorses was an art of the highest importance, andyoung men who were ambitious to figure well inthe joust and tournev had to do really hard workin order to gain complete submission over thehorse. The tournev ring was, in fact, the begin-ning of the manege, in which the horse is com-. 1 THE RIDING SCHOOL AT SAUMUR. 2. GENERAL EQUERRY-IN-CHIEF AT THE RIDING SCHOOL. pletelv dominated bythe touch of the spurs,though the more com-plex doctrines and prac-tice of the haute ccolewere a later growth, ac-complished by a schoolof horsemen peculiarlyqualified for attainingsuch results. Anything in the na-ture of brute force hasalways been rigidly ex-cluded from the idealsof the haute ccole. Those who have recently asso-ciated its aims with the somewhat severe militaryride that encountered such hostile criticism notlong ago, could have done so only in the manege the horse and rider almost appear tounderstand one anothers inmost thoughts, andthere is a perfect sympathy that no outward signbetrays to the onlooker. The man sits his horsein a free and easy attitude, and his position iselegant and correct without affectation. Thehorse moves lightly on its feet, feeling the bit a
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