The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . n58 EQUESTRIANISM. explained under that lioad) as will insure his entire docilityand easy management. This is ^particularly necessary be-fore attempting to ride him in the street. Much of the foregoing instruction will apply to ladieslearning to ride horseback. The lady
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . n58 EQUESTRIANISM. explained under that lioad) as will insure his entire docilityand easy management. This is ^particularly necessary be-fore attempting to ride him in the street. Much of the foregoing instruction will apply to ladieslearning to ride horseback. The lady should so sit uponthe horse that her weight will fall perpendicularly to the. Fig. 250.—Position in the saddle back of the horse, her face directly to the front, her shoul-ders drawn back, and her elbows held to her sides. Shewill permit her body, from the hips upward, to bend withthe motions of the horse, in order that she may preserveher balance. The right knee will hold the upright hornclose in the bend of the knee. The left foot will be thrustinto the stirrup to the ball of the foot, and the heel wall, asa rule, be carried down. But when the heel is elevated,the upper part of the left knee should find support in the PRACTICAL HINTS. 359 side horn, and for tlint end the stirrup leather shonhl begiven such a length as will permit this. A lady shouldnoA^er be mounted on a weak or stumbling horse. The reins are to be held in the left hand, as alreadydescribed, and in a line with the elbow. The whip shouldbe carried in the right hand, with the jioint toward the
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