Transcriber’s Note
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of these changesis found at the end of the text.
GRACEFUL RIDING.
A
POCKET MANUAL FOR EQUESTRIANS.
ABRIDGED AND REVISED FROM “WAITE’S EQUESTRIAN’S MANUAL,”
DEDICATED TO H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT.
BY
S. C. WAITE, ESQ.
LONDON:
ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY:
AND ALL BOOKSELLERS.
1859.
PREFACE.
The Author’s last publication, “The Equestrian’s Manual,” having metwith so kind a reception from the Press and the Public—one which helooks upon with the greatest gratitude—has induced him to compile forthe use of Equestrians of both sexes the present little Work, in thesincere hope that his humble efforts may, in some degree, aid inobviating the many severe and often fatal accidents, the result, in mostinstances, of inexperience in Horsemanship.
Should he have attained this end, and given some instruction to thenervous and timid, or any to the experienced equestrian, he will feelhimself well repaid.
INTRODUCTION.
The science of Equitation has for many years been allowed, by thetestimony and strong recommendation of the most eminent of the faculty,to be an accomplishment highly conducive and most beneficial to health;assisting the blood in its proper circulation through the frame, onwhich depends wholly good spirits, and freedom from bilious,hypochondriacal, and nervous affections.
Parents should not neglect to have imparted to their children an art socalculated for the development of grace and beauty in maturity, and,above all other considerations, one that so eminently guards againstthe many diseases of this varying climate; diseases which are, in fact,almost, if we may use the term, “indigenous” to the spring and summer oflife.
Physicians, of the past and present time, whose mere names should besufficient to procure every patronage, are in favour of the acquirementof this most essential and elegant science. The skill necessary tobecome a perfect rider, can only be obtained through the tuition of afirst-rate ma