On Seats and Saddles; Bits and Bitting and the Prevention and Cure of Restiveness in Horses (Paperback: 296 pages)
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Product Details: On Seats and Saddles; Bits and Bitting and the Prevention and Cure of Restiveness in Horses
| Author: | Francis Dwyer, Francis Dwyer |
| Format: | Paperback: 296 pages. |
| Publisher: | Bradley Pr (02/28/2008) |
| ISBN: | 1408647400 |
| ISBN13: | 9781408647400 |
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- CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. PAGE Various styles of riding a conseqlience of various kinds of inducements to ride-Natural riders and instructed riders-There is great waste of horse-flesh and premature destruction of the animals legs where bad methods are followed, or where no method at all exists-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 horses skeleton is the framework of the machine we eniploy as a bearer - In order to adjust the burden to this, some knowledge of the machine is required, as also of the saddle by means of which that burden is placed and retained on the horses back-The seat is the way in which the rider adjusts his own weight through the intermedium of the saddle to the horse-Varieties of seats to suit various purposes-The bit is the instrument by which the riders will is transmitted to the horse it is a lever which, if accurately adapted, will be of great assistance and value to the rider if unfitted in shape, size, C., it is not onlyuseless, but often dangerous - Restiveness in horses most usually the consequence of injudicious treatment of some kincl or other-To prevent or cure restiveness requires a knowledge of the methods ernployed for breaking-in or handling horses, consequently also of the method in which the weight of the rider should be brought to bear, and also how such horses should be bitted, . . . 1-15 TABLE OF CONTENTS. PART I. SEATS AND SADDLES. CHAPTER I. THE FRAMEWORK OF THE HORSE CONSIDERED FROM A MECHANICAL POINT OF VIEW. The four legs are the supports of the spinal column which bears the burdendirectly.-There is one portion of the spinal column round which all the others move this is the centre of motion of the horse-The-head and neck project beyond the basis on which the animal stands the position of the centre of gravity modified by this-The horses fore - a legs are, more particularlyi bearers, the hind ones propellers-The action of the horse mill depend on the relative positions of these two centres, which will be shown by the hoof-tracks, and is also easily recognisable by the ear-The relative positions of the two centres of gravity and motion may be adjusted as the nature of the service demanded requires, by simply altering the position of the head and neck and this is equally true whether the horse be in motion or at rest, 19-44 CHAPTER 11. THE SADDLE, AND ITS IXFLUENCE Oh THE SEAT. The saddle should be adjusted to whatever seat may be adopted for a particular purpose, and not vice versd the seat to the saddle-Its size should be proportioned to the weight it will have to sllpport its shape should be adapted, on the one hand, to the horses back on the other, to the riders seat and legs-The weight should be so placed as to press equally over the whole under surface of the saddle there must be no lever action all of which is best attained by niaking the seat central, placing the girths also in the centre of the saddle, and, finally, the stil upea s near this TABLE OF CONTENTS...
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