EQUITATION
BY
H. L. DE BUSSIGNY
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1922
| CONTENTS | ||
| PART I | ||
| THE USUAL OR INSTINCTIVE EQUITATION | ||
| I. | Introduction | 3 |
| II. | Mount, Dismount, and Vault | 7 |
| III. | The Seat | 15 |
| IV. | The Woman Rider | 30 |
| V. | The Aids | 37 |
| VI. | The Gaits | 40 |
| VII. | Jumping | 47 |
| PART II | ||
| THE REASONED EQUITATION : THE TRAINING OF THE SADDLE-HORSE BY THE AID OF PRINCIPLES BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF MASTERS OF THE ART OF RIDING | ||
| VIII. | The Reasoned Equitation | 55 |
| IX. | Breaking in | 58 |
| X. | Rewards and Punishments | 67 |
| c11XI | The First Work on Foot | 70 |
| XII. | The Flexions | 74 |
| XIII. | Backing and the Pirouettes | 86 |
| XIV. | The Handling of the Reins | 94 |
| XV. | The First Work Mounted: The Hands and the Aids | 106 |
| XVI. | The Legs and their Effects | 111 |
| XVII. | The Spurs and their Effects | 119 |
| XVIII. | Mobilizations Mounted | 140
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| XIX. | The Flexions Mounted | 149 |
| XX. | Placing the Horse and the Variants from the "In Hand" | 160 |
| XXI. | The Assemblage | 180 |
| PART III | ||
| The Scientific Equitation | ||
| XXII. | The Diagonal Effect | 189 |
| XXIII. | The Figures of Manege | 201 |
| XXIV. | My Own System | 235 |
| XXV. | The Jambettes | 245 |
| XXVI. | The Spanish Walk | 252 |
| XXVII. | The Spanish and the Flying Trot | 261 |
| XXVIII. | The Piaffer | 269 |
| XXIX. | The Passage | 284 |
| XXX. | The Passage Backward | 296 |
| XXXI. | HANDS WITHOUT LEGS: LEGS WITHOUT HANDS | 308 |
| PART IV | ||
| THE DEFENSES OF THE HORSE AND THEIR CORRECTION | ||
| XXXII. | The Defenses of the Horse and their Correction | 313 |
| APPENDIX | ||
| Report of a Commission of Three Officers of the United States Army on the de Bussigny System | 363 | |