"Centaur" : or The "turn out," a practical treatise on the (humane) management of horses, either in harness, saddle, or stable; with hints respecting the harness-room, coach-house, &c. . RIDING, Hold fast, sit sure. Riding is said to be the poetry of motion ; anyway,it is the most invigorating and healthy of exercises. Weare taught that horsemanship emanates from Egypt, andthat Egypt was the great and original breeding place forhorses ; we are likewise told that Solomon obtained all hishorses from Egypt, the price averaging i6o Shekels, orabout ^i8 English money, for each animal. Accordingto t
"Centaur" : or The "turn out," a practical treatise on the (humane) management of horses, either in harness, saddle, or stable; with hints respecting the harness-room, coach-house, &c. . RIDING, Hold fast, sit sure. Riding is said to be the poetry of motion ; anyway,it is the most invigorating and healthy of exercises. Weare taught that horsemanship emanates from Egypt, andthat Egypt was the great and original breeding place forhorses ; we are likewise told that Solomon obtained all hishorses from Egypt, the price averaging i6o Shekels, orabout ^i8 English money, for each animal. Accordingto the Greek writers, Sesostris was the first who tauo-htmen to tame and ride horses. Six hundred years afterSolomon, Xenophon says that Persia possessed no horsesbefore the age of Cyrus, but afterwards produced thefinest in the world, and all were horsemen, in fact thevery name of Persia became associated with horsemanship,and the present of a Persian horse was a gift Greeks became famous for their horsemanship aboutthe time of, or just before, the Trojan war, (1192 B, C.)hence the Grecian fables of the Caitauj^s, or as Ovid callsthem semi-human horses and semi-equine men
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