A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses
A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses
J S John Solomon Rarey
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By a judicious use of the curb rein, you collect a tired horse; tiredhorses are inclined to sprawl about. You draw his hind-legs under him, throw him upon his haunches, and render him less liable to fall even onhis weary or weak fore-legs. But a pull at the reins when a horse isfalling may make him hold up his head, but cannot make him hold up hislegs. "When a horse is in movement there should be a constant touch or feelingor play between his mouth and the rider's hands. " Not the hold by which...riders of the foreign school retain their horses at an artificial paradepace, which is inconceivably fatiguing to the animal, and quite contraryto our English notions of natural riding; but a gradual, delicate firmfeeling of the mouth and steady indications of the legs, which keep afiery well-broken horse always, to use a school phrase, "between yourhands and legs. " You cannot take too much pains to acquire this art, for although it isnot exercised on an old hack, that you ride with reins held any how, andyour legs dangling anywhere, it is called into action and givesadditional enjoyment to be striding the finest class of high-courageddelicate-mouthed horses--beautiful creatures that seem to enjoy beingridden by a real horseman or light-handed Amazone, but which becomefrantic in ignorant or brutal hands.
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