On Seats and Saddles: Bits and Bitting and the Prevention and Cure of Restiveness in HorsesBlackwood, 1868 - 265 páginas |
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... seat - The hunting seat - Road - riding - Rising in the stirrups versus bobbing up and down - What is the object of both , CHAPTER IV . THE MILITARY SEAT . · 64-88 This is more easily reducible to rule than any other , the object being ...
... seat - The hunting seat - Road - riding - Rising in the stirrups versus bobbing up and down - What is the object of both , CHAPTER IV . THE MILITARY SEAT . · 64-88 This is more easily reducible to rule than any other , the object being ...
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... hunting seat " merely because it is a prominent type , and therefore caught their eye more readily than the chaos that presented itself in all other directions . Many of them would doubtless adopt with equal readi- ness some other form ...
... hunting seat " merely because it is a prominent type , and therefore caught their eye more readily than the chaos that presented itself in all other directions . Many of them would doubtless adopt with equal readi- ness some other form ...
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... hunting , a horse is not required to move otherwise than in nearly straight lines or gentle curves . A jockey that understands the work will ride differently in the latter and the former , and will immediately change his seat when he ...
... hunting , a horse is not required to move otherwise than in nearly straight lines or gentle curves . A jockey that understands the work will ride differently in the latter and the former , and will immediately change his seat when he ...
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... hunting , sharp turns are seldom required , whilst speed is ; and there- fore there is a justification for throwing the weight for- wards or backwards , especially in jumping ; but even this has certain limits , of which more hereafter ...
... hunting , sharp turns are seldom required , whilst speed is ; and there- fore there is a justification for throwing the weight for- wards or backwards , especially in jumping ; but even this has certain limits , of which more hereafter ...
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... hunting seat , * " the knee a pivot , or rather hinge , and the legs beneath them the grasp , " is like holding a horse - pistol between the tips of the forefinger and thumb , instead of grasping it in the full hand . If the weapon ...
... hunting seat , * " the knee a pivot , or rather hinge , and the legs beneath them the grasp , " is like holding a horse - pistol between the tips of the forefinger and thumb , instead of grasping it in the full hand . If the weapon ...
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On Seats and Saddles Bits and Bitting and the Prevention and Cure of ... Francis Dwyer Visualização integral - 1868 |
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