This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...Mr. E. P. Wilson, who soon taught him to negotiate the Aintree style of country, and won on his pupil with great ease. I may remark that the Liverpool fences are all of the "flying" sort, and consist chiefly of hedges with a ditch on the taking off or landing side. Being of a uniform character, they do not demand the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...Mr. E. P. Wilson, who soon taught him to negotiate the Aintree style of country, and won on his pupil with great ease. I may remark that the Liverpool fences are all of the "flying" sort, and consist chiefly of hedges with a ditch on the taking off or landing side. Being of a uniform character, they do not demand the same amount of cleverness that is required in a more cramped country. Besides this, almost all the Cremornes are natural jumpers. I am aware that it is a very common idea among racing men both in England and in India, that the way to obtain a good maiden chaser is to pick up a horse that has shown his ability to gallop, stay, and carry weight on the flat; and to teach him to jump. Following the opinion of the best judges of the subject, in Ireland, I maintain that, as a rule, such animals will turn out failures; and that far better results, for the same amount of money, will ensue from buying "likely" young ones and teaching them their cross-country business, when two-year olds, if in Great Britain; or, as three-year olds, in India. As I have thoroughly discussed, in another work, the subject of riding, I need not dwell on it further than to repeat "that the art of riding well over a country, chiefly consists in making as little as possible of the jumps, and that the fact of the rider treating fences and level ground with equal indifference, will inspire his horse with confidence to take things in the same spirit." Horses, like boys, delight in a scamper in the country; while both detest their ramble being converted into a sort of "punishment drill," consisting of marching backwards and forwards over the same ground. Horses, also, being gregarious, love to follow their leader. Hence, take a fresh line of ...
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All Editions of Training and Horse Management in India: With a Hindustanee Stable & Veterinary Vocabulary, and the Calcutta Turf Club Weights for Age and Class
