The Torrance Clendennin Episode And the Melville Letters On Racing Hunting S
The Torrance Clendennin Episode And the Melville Letters On Racing Hunting S
Clarence D Levey
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Do not ask a child to ride who has no decided taste for it, for like unwilling hands with pencil and brush thrust in them, the art will not be elevated. A love for horses, with a decided taste, will overcome all difficulties, with the innate facility that a determined enthusiast accomplishes ; and the magic sense of touch, the facile delicacy of manipula- tion will soon come that makes good hands. Gaudy dressing for girls, boys, women or men on horseback should be severely condemned, and stamps... the person as one of inferior taste. Ribbons, colored veils, showy flov/ers, should be shunned, and corduroy 66 Experts on Horseback. or velvet with men should be discarded. Quietness even to severity should be shown. The invention of rising- on the saddle is credited to Dan Seffert, an expert steeple-chase rider, and a master of the cross-country art in detail. We should thank him heartily for it, as it is a decided improve- ment on the jog" trot adopted by cavalry, which, while imparting- to their purposes uniformity of motion in line riding, is not suited to men or women, either for appearances or for health.
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