On Seats and Saddles: Bits and Bitting and the Prevention and Cure of Restiveness in HorsesBlackwood, 1868 - 265 páginas |
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... English civilian riders use up an enormous quantity of horse - flesh - Some foreign cavalry services do the same - The causes are generally false distribution of the weight to be carried - The horse's skele- ton is the framework of the ...
... English civilian riders use up an enormous quantity of horse - flesh - Some foreign cavalry services do the same - The causes are generally false distribution of the weight to be carried - The horse's skele- ton is the framework of the ...
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... English method of training or handling young horses - Continental or school methods - Advantages or disadvantages of these two ; their description ; how they may be best made appli- cable to the prevention and cure of restiveness , 203 ...
... English method of training or handling young horses - Continental or school methods - Advantages or disadvantages of these two ; their description ; how they may be best made appli- cable to the prevention and cure of restiveness , 203 ...
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... that a very great and constantly- increasing number of English saddle - horses are an- nually exported to Berlin , Vienna , Paris , and other great Continental cities , and many of these are there 4 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
... that a very great and constantly- increasing number of English saddle - horses are an- nually exported to Berlin , Vienna , Paris , and other great Continental cities , and many of these are there 4 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
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... English horses were incapable of any high degree of school - training . Others who were more judi- cious found it impossible to reconcile the well - known docility of the English breed with the fractiousness and intractability of these ...
... English horses were incapable of any high degree of school - training . Others who were more judi- cious found it impossible to reconcile the well - known docility of the English breed with the fractiousness and intractability of these ...
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... English , as a nation , pos- sess in a high degree the physical and moral qualifica- tions that go to make good riders . Where , then , can the fault lie ? Evidently in something connected with the mechanism employed in enabling the ...
... English , as a nation , pos- sess in a high degree the physical and moral qualifica- tions that go to make good riders . Where , then , can the fault lie ? Evidently in something connected with the mechanism employed in enabling the ...
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On Seats and Saddles Bits and Bitting and the Prevention and Cure of ... Francis Dwyer Visualização integral - 1868 |
On Seats and Saddles: Bits and Bitting and the Prevention and Cure of ... Francis Dwyer Visualização integral - 1869 |
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