Alice M. Hayes

PREFACE.

CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Beginning to Ride 1 to 7 CHAPTER II.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Frontispiece Alice M. Hayes. FIG. PAGE

THE HORSEWOMAN.

CHAPTER I. BEGINNING TO RIDE.

CHAPTER II. HORSES FOR LADIES.

CHAPTER III. SIDE-SADDLES.

CHAPTER IV. BRIDLES.

CHAPTER V. RIDING DRESS.

CHAPTER VI. MOUNTING AND DISMOUNTING. MOUNTING.

CHAPTER VII. HOW TO HOLD THE REINS.

CHAPTER VIII. THE SEAT.

CHAPTER IX. HANDS, VOICE, WHIP AND SPUR. HANDS.

CHAPTER X. FIRST LESSONS IN RIDING.

CHAPTER XI. RIDING ACROSS COUNTRY.

CHAPTER XII. HACKING.

CHAPTER XIII. RIDING WITHOUT REINS.

CHAPTER XIV. NERVE.

CHAPTER XV. FENCES, COUNTRY AND GATES.

CHAPTER XVI. HUNTING.

CHAPTER XVII. RIDING AND HUNTING ABROAD.

CHAPTER XVIII. WALKING FOXHOUND PUPPIES.

CHAPTER XIX. KINDNESS TO HORSES.

CHAPTER XX. CROSS-SADDLE RIDING FOR LADIES.

CHAPTER XXI. RIDING DIFFICULT HORSES.

CHAPTER XXII. NAMES OF EXTERNAL PARTS OF THE HORSE.

INDEX.

BOOKS ON HORSES.

Transcriber’s Note

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of corrections is found at the end of the text. Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been maintained. A list of inconsistently spelled and hyphenated words is found at the end of the text.

THE
HORSEWOMAN

THE HORSEWOMAN
A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding

BY
ALICE M. HAYES
Author of “My Leper Friends.”

EDITED BY
M. HORACE HAYES, F.R.C.V.S.
(Late Captain “The Buffs”)

Author of
“Points of the Horse,” “Veterinary Notes for Horse-Owners,”
“Riding and Hunting,” etc.

Second Edition, revised, enlarged and 133 photographic
illustrations added.

LONDON
HURST AND BLACKETT, LIMITED
13 GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET
1903

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