[CHAPTER I.]
MILITARY RIDING NOT FIT FOR COMMON RIDING.

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[Throughout Europe there is only one style of riding taught][2]
[That is the soldier’s one-handed style][2]
[Two hands should be used to the reins][5]
[A soldier’s horse must turn on the wrong rein][7]
[Common riders generally turn their horses on the wrong rein][9]
[Result of this with colts or restive horses][10]
[Indications are not aids][12]

[CHAPTER II.]
HOLDING AND HANDLING THE REINS.

[Reins at full length][14]
[The downward clutch][16]
[The Grecian mode of holding and handling the reins][18]
[The side clutch][20]
[The two reins crossed in one hand][21]
[A rein in each hand][23]
[Turn to the right, and left][26]
[The hunting hand][26]
[The rough-rider’s hand][27]
[Fixing the hands][28]
[Use of both bridles at once][30]
[Shortening the reins when held one in each hand, system of taught, and of untaught horsemen][30]
[Use of the whip][34]
[Horses swerve and turn only to the left][34]
[Fault in “the great untaught,” two-handed, English rider][35]

[CHAPTER III.]
EFFECT OF INDICATIONS.

[Retaining, urging, and guiding indications][36]
[To make a horse collect himself][37]
[Canter, right turn, right pass][38]
[Left shoulder in][38]
[Bearing on the mouth][39]
[The horse must be made to collect himself in turning][42]
[And should not be turned on one rein only][43]
[Lady’s canter][44]
[The quicker the pace, the greater degree of collection][44]
[French and English mistake in this][45]
[The shy horse][46]
[The restive horse][48]
[Truth may be paradoxical][49]

[CHAPTER IV.]
MECHANICAL AID OF THE RIDER.

[The rider cannot raise the falling horse][50]
[Harm is done by the attempt][51]
[The bearing-rein][54]
[Mechanical assistance of the jockey to his horse][56]
[Standing on the stirrups][58]
[Difference between the gallop and the leap][58]
[Steeple-chases and hurdle-races unfair on the horse][59]
[The rider should not attempt to lift his horse at a fence][61]

[CHAPTER V.]
THE SEAT.