The Horse and His Rider

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Francis Bond Sir Head. The Horse and His Rider

The Horse and His Rider

Table of Contents

PREFACE

The Horse

Mr. Rarey's Mode of Subduing Horses

Seat on a Horse

Mode of riding at Timber

Water Jumping

Modes of Swimming a Horse

Judicious Riding

Use and Abuse of Spurs

How To Treat a Hunter in the Field

How To Bring a Hunter Home

How To dress for Hunting

How to Eat and Drink for Hunting

Difference between Leicestershire and Surrey Hunting

The Stable

On Shoeing

On Roughing Horses

Saddles

Bridles

Intrinsic Value of a Horse

On Shying

Singeing

Meet of the Pytchley Hounds at Arthingworth

Effects Caused by the Sight of Hounds

Cruelty of Hunting Considered

The Lamb and the Fox

Thomas Assheton Smith,

On Military Horse-Power

How to Hobble and Anchor Horses

On Chloroforming Horses

MR. MURRAY'S. GENERAL LIST OF WORKS

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Francis Bond Sir Head

Published by Good Press, 2021

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We will, however, humbly venture to assert that, in certain instances, the three steps of this little ladder might be reversed.

1. In a state of nature the horse is such a zealous advocate of our popular principle of "self-government," he is so desirous to maintain his "independence," that although he will allow almost any quadruped, even wolves and lions, to approach within a certain distance, yet the moment he sees a man, though on horseback, he instinctively turns his tail towards him, and, when followed, gallops away.

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