. Riding and driving. FIG. 100. —RUNNING WALK. FIG. 101. —CASTING A HORSE General Remarks 155 or from being ridden too rapidly at turns; so that,however the mark comes, a broken knee is takenas a sign of poor or careless riding. Doubtless, instruction was given in the art ofriding by amateurs or by professed teachers, fromthe time the horse came into use. The earliestexisting work on horsemanship is that of Xeno-phon (born 430 ); then there is a hiatus untilthe Italian Renaissance, since which epoch wehave had many works on the subject; but beforeXenophons time, and between that and the ap
. Riding and driving. FIG. 100. —RUNNING WALK. FIG. 101. —CASTING A HORSE General Remarks 155 or from being ridden too rapidly at turns; so that,however the mark comes, a broken knee is takenas a sign of poor or careless riding. Doubtless, instruction was given in the art ofriding by amateurs or by professed teachers, fromthe time the horse came into use. The earliestexisting work on horsemanship is that of Xeno-phon (born 430 ); then there is a hiatus untilthe Italian Renaissance, since which epoch wehave had many works on the subject; but beforeXenophons time, and between that and the ap-pearance of Grisones printed work in 1550 (mycopy, apparently a first edition, was dated 1560),we may be sure that there was no lack of writingsupon the subject, lost through the perishablenature of the form in which an authors laborswere presented. Of the early works of this sec-ond appearance the best known are those of An-toine de Pluvinel, equerry to Louis XIII. ofFrance, — a splendid effort, published in Paris in1619, — and that o
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