Riding for Ladies: With Hints on the Stable

by Mrs. Power O'Donoghue

INDEX.

• Abrasion, [275]
• Accidents to children, [6]
• Adjusting mouthpiece, [74], [87]
• Administering ball, [265]
• Adonis (hunter), [42]
• Age at which to begin to ride, [10]
• Age of hunters, [214]
• Age symptoms, [321]
• Ailments, [271]
• Aloes, [263]
• Amateur blacksmiths, [322]
• Amateur jockeys, [321]
• Amateur tailors, [54]
• Anecdote of boy on pony, [168]
• Anti-rearing bit, [76]
• Appliances for young equestrians, [70]
• Apron (carriage), [326]
• Aspect of stables, [250]
• Attitude when driving, [331]

• Balance riding, [15], [101]
• Bales, [312]
• Balling-irons, [264]
• Ball mixture, [266]
• Balls, [263]
• Bandages, [270]
• Bandaging, [320]
• Bandaging eyes, [269]
• Bargains, [188]
• Bars of the mouth, [74]
• Baulking, [163]
• Beans, [246]
• Bearing-reins, [329]
• Bedding, [258]
• Bencraft hames, [327]
• Bit and bridoon, [71]
• Bitting, [63], [328], [329], [336], [337]
• Bleeding, [268]
• Blemishes, [41]
• Blinds, [255]
• Blinkers, [322], [329]
• Blistering, [267]
• Blood can, [268]
• Blood stock, [285]
• Bodices, [50]
• Boiled barley, [247]
• Boiler, [259]
• Boiling corn, [243]
• Boiling grain, [316]
• Bolts (carriage), [326]
• Boot for horse, [309]
• Boots (for riders), [47], [56], [182]
• Boring, [137]
• Box stalls, [252]
• Breakfast (hunting), [221]
• Breaking (alteration of pace), [128], [131]
• Breaking in, [293]
• Breaking intractable horse, [301]
• Breastplates (hunting), [308]
• Breeches, [55], [180]
• Breeding, [280]
• Breeding centres, [216]
• Bridle hand, [315]
• Bridles, [66]
• Bridling, [86]
• Broken knees, [277]
• Broken wind, [311]
• Bronchitis, [271]
• Brood Mares, [282]
• Brushing, [308]
• Buck jumping, [139]
• Bungling, [170]
• Buxton bit, [328]

• Calkins, [234]
• Cambridge bit, [71]
• Cantering, [101], [132], [135]
• Cantering in harness, [330]
• Carefulness, [198]
• Carriage covering, [326]
• Carrying shoe, [228]
• Cast under manger, [314]
• Cats, [260]
• Celluloid, [61], [199]
• Chaff, [247]
• Chifney bit, [71]
• Children mounting, [18]
• Children riding, [5]
• Chilled water, [248]
• Chloroform, [278]
• Clearing nostrils, [311]
• Clips (carriage), [326]
• Clover hay, [247]
• Cobs, [209]
• Colds, [271]
• Colic, [272]
• Collar shy, [325]
• Collars, [326]
• Confidence, [152]
• Congested lungs, [271]
• Consideration for servants, [124]
• Contrast in articles, [192]
• Cooked food, [241]
• Cooking apparatus, [259]
• Coolness in danger, [141]
• Cork girl, [65]
• Corns, [238], [273]
• Corn chest, [258]
• Corsets, [201]
• Costume for hunting, [180]
• Costume for road and park, [44]
• Costume for young learner, [18]
• Country riding suits, [307]
• Coupling reins, [330]
• Courtesy, [229]
• Covert coats, [185]
• Covert hack, [204]
• Cow kick, [132]
• Cracked heels, [274]
• Crib-biting, [319]
• Cupboard (stable), [259]
• Curb chain (adjusting), [87]
• Curry-comb, [313]
• Cutting out a single line, [227]
• Cutting out riding trousers, [195]

• Defective vision, [322]
• Demeanour at meet, [223]
• Destroying animals, [278]
• Diamond (racer), [35]
• Diarrhœa, [272]
• Diet for foal, [290]
• Dishing, [319]
• Dispensing with stirrup, [15], [103]
• Disquietude in mounting, [143]
• Ditch and drain falls, [172]
• Docking, [311]
• Doctoring, [262]
• Doors, [252]
• Down jumping, [149]
• Draught, [256]
• Drinks (physic), [266]
• Dropping, [40]
• Dumb jockey, [297]
• Dwyer curb, [71]

• Ear hairs, [313]
• Economics, [188]
• Educated smiths, [238]
• Elbows, [103]
• Empress in Cheshire, [70]
• Escaping falls, [166]
• Exercising youngsters, [311]
• Experience with mare in field, [119]
• Experiment with a mare, [78]

• Fallen trees, [147]
• Falling, [166]
• Falling on the flat, [175]
• False economies, [194]
• False quarter, [316]
• False refinement, [130]
• False teaching, [151]
• Farcy, [274]
• Fashionable coachmen, [329]
• Feeding, [217], [241]
• Feeding pail, [288]
• Fencing, [149]
• Filling feet, [314]
• Fire buckets, [257]
• Firing, [273]
• First class drivers, [332]
• Flap reins, [13]
• Fleam, [269]
• Flies, [311]
• Flooring, [251]
• Fluid physicking, [266]
• Foal bands, [53]
• Foal feeding, [288]
• Foot fever, [272]
• Foot “home,” [100], [325]
• Foaling, [286]
• Foaling-box, [287]
• Fomentations, [270]
• Ford crossing, [22]
• Fore-legs, [211]
• Fractured hoof, [239]
• Friction, [268]

• Gag-bits, [68], [69]
• Galloping, [136]
• Gaping, [75]
• Getting teams together, [334]
• Girthing, [90]
• Girths, [85]
• Glanders, [271]
• Glazing, [255]
• Gloves, [47], [258]
• Going at a leap, [148]
• Going fast at water, [152]
• Granary, [258]
• Grooming, [313]
• Groom’s excuses, [242]
• Groom’s bedroom, [260]
• Gruel, [247]

• Habit-cutting, [320]
• Hacks, [203]
• Half horned hunting snaffle, [72]
• Hames, [326]
• Hand galloping, [136]
• Hands, [108], [128]
• Hanoverian Pelham, [68]
• Hat fasteners, [60]
• Hats, [47], [186], [199]
• Harness rooms, [260]
• Haunches, [213]
• Hay, [246]
• Hayloft, [256]
• Heel horn (removing), [235]
• Heel opening, [233]
• Heels, [236]
• Height of hunter, [212]
• Helpers, [266]
• Hiring horses, [321]
• Hocks, [205]
• Holding the reins, [107]
• Hollow back, [35]
• Hoofs, [37]
• Horse balls, [264]
• Hot fitting, [323]
• Hunters, [203], [209]
• Hunters in harness, [208], [244]
• Hunting, [217]
• Hunting breastplate, [308]
• Hunting centres, [324]
• Hunting colts, [290]
• Hunting outfit, [179]
• Hunting scarlet, [323]
• Hustling, [308]