Military equitation: or, a method of breaking horses, and teaching soldiers to ride. Designed for the use of the army / By Henry earl of Pembroke.

  • Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke
Date:
1793
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Military equitation: or, a method of breaking horses, and teaching soldiers to ride. Designed for the use of the army / By Henry earl of Pembroke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    carely ufeci, mud in feme degree occafion. Vv^hoever be- gins a horfe with a bridle, muft be, in every refpe'51, a very good, delicate rider, and be very careful that the horfe does not get and keep his head low, whereby all ac- tion in the fhoulders is fpoiled. I have feen fome fchoois, in France particularly, where a bit was immediately put into a horfe’s mouth at firft; but I have conftantly ob- ferved in thofe fchoois, that their horfes carried their heads low, that the motion of their flioulders was not free, but confined. Here and there one horfe or fo, indeed, there might be, whofe fore-hand nature had placed fo high, that nothing could bring it down low. Great care muft be taken to make the men ufe their fnaffies delicately j otherwife, as a fnaffle has not the power, which a bridle has upon a horfe’s mouth, they will ufe themfelves to take fuch liberties with it, as will quite fpoil their hands, and teach the horfes to pull, be dead in hand, and quite upon their fhoulders, entirely deprived of good adlion. Whenever any bridles are ufed, (and they always ftiould be at a proper time, when the horfes’ heads are high, and they are well determined, light in hand, and free in their motions) they muft be all the fame •, for though difterent C 1 mouths
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