The Young Lady's Equestrian Manual

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THE YOUNG LADY’S EQUESTRIAN MANUAL.

E.LANDELLS.S. LONDON. WHITEHEAD AND COMP Y . 76, FLEET STREET. MDCCCXXXVIII.

Women riding sidesaddle under a tree

Mare and foal drinking from a trough

saddle and whip

Transcriber’s Note Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Alistof these changes is found at the end of the text.

THE YOUNG LADY’S EQUESTRIAN MANUAL.

Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

PREFACE.

The following pages contain a Treatise on the Art of Riding on Horseback, for Ladies, which originally appeared in the Publishers’ well-known Manual of elegant feminine Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits, The Young Lady’s Book; with, however, various additions to the Text, and a number of new Illustrations and Embellishments. In offering the Treatise, thus improved and adorned, in a separate form, the Publishers, it need scarcely be said, have been influenced, materially, by that high and most extensive patronage, which, under Royal auspices, has been conferred by the ladies of this country, since the commencement of the present reign, on the Art of which it is the subject.

Young lady offering a treat to a horse

Top hat placed on a table top

CONTENTS.

Introduction Equestrian Technicalities The Lady’s Horse Personal Equipments Accoutrements for the Horse Rules of the Road Mode of Mounting Management of the Reins The Seat and Balance Aids and Defences Soothings and Animations Corrections Vices Exercises in the Paces The Walk The Trot The Canter The Gallop Stopping and Backing Leaping Dismounting Concluding Remarks

Woman mounted side-saddle with panniers with vegetables behind her

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THE YOUNG LADY’S EQUESTRIAN MANUAL.

Queen Elizabeth riding side-saddle surrounded by mounted courtiers and kneeling subjects

Our Virgin Queen, peerless Elizabeth, With grace and dignity rode through the host: And proudly paced that gallant steed, as though He knew his saddle was a royal throne.

Three women riding astride

The present graceful, secure, and appropriate style of female equestrianism is, however, materially different from that of the olden time. In by-gone days, the dame or damosel rode precisely as the knight or page. Of this, several illustrations occur in an illuminated manuscript of the fourteenth century, preserved in the Royal Library. In one of these, a lady of that period is depicted on horseback, enjoying the pastime of the chase. In another, are represented two gentlewomen of the same period, on horseback, with an individual of the other sex, engaged (as is shewn by some parts of the design, which it would be needless, for our present purpose, to copy) in the once much-favoured diversion of Hawking.

Woman with hunting horn, mounted astride

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