Riding and Driving

CONTENTS

RIDING

By EDWARD L. ANDERSON

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	Breeding the Saddle-horse	3
II.	Handling the Young Horse	20
III.	The Purchase, the Care, and the Sale of the Saddle-horse	30
IV.	Some Saddle-horse Stock Farms	47
V.	The Saddle—The Bridle—How To Mount	54
VI.	The Seat—General Horsemanship	64
VII.	American Horsemanship—Our Cavalry	78
VIII.	How to Ride—The Snaffle-bridle—The Walk and the Trot—Shying—The Cunning of the Horse—Sulking—Rearing—Defeating the Horse	85
IX.	What Training will do for a Horse—The Forms of Collection	103
X.	The Spur	109
XI.	Some Work on Foot—The Suppling	112
XII.	The Curb-and-Snaffle Bridle—Guiding by the Rein against the Neck—Croup about Forehand—Upon Two Paths	121
XIII.	The Gallop, and the Gallop Change—Wheel in the Gallop—Pirouette Turn—Halt in the Gallop	127
XIV.	Backing	135
XV.	Jumping	138
XVI.	General Remarks	147

DRIVING

By PRICE COLLIER

	Introduction	I
I.	Economic Value of the Horse	159
II.	The Natural History of the Horse	169
III.	The Early Days of the Horse in America	179
IV.	Points of the Horse	195
V.	The Stable	211
VI.	Feeding and Stable Management	225
VII.	First Aid to the Injured	239
VIII.	Shoeing	251
IX.	Harness	259
X.	The American Horse	284
XI.	A Chapter of Little Things	300
XII.	Driving One Horse	315
XIII.	Driving a Pair	333
XIV.	Driving Four	353
XV.	The Tandem	392
XVI.	Driving Tandem. By T. Suffern Tailer	401

	Bibliography	427

	Index	429

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