This Is A New Release Of The Original 1894 Edition.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

ILLUSTRATED HORSE-BREAKING - 1908 - Dear IRRtfe WHO HAS BEEN MY BEST HELPER AND SOUNDEST ADVISER WHEN I HAVE BEEN BREAKING HORSES IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD - PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. - I OFFER this work to the favourable consideration of the public, as an attempt to describe a reasoned-out system of horse-breaking, which I have found, by practical experience, to be easy of execution, rapid in its effects, and requiring the possession of no exceptional strength, activity, pluck, or horsemanship by the operator, who, to become expert in it, -ill, as a rule, need only practice. It is in accordance with our English and Irish ideas on the subject for it aims at teaching the horse manners, and giving him a snafflebridle mouth so that he will go up to the bridle, and bend himself in thorough obedience to rein and leg. As a personal explanation, I may mention that after having spent many years racing and training in India, during which time I practised the ordinary methods of breaking, I returned to England, where I learned the use of the standing martingale and long driving reins, as applled specially to jumpers, from AIr. John Hubert Aloore, who was the cleverest maker of steeplechasers Ireland ever knew. He, I may remark, obtained these methods, in his youth, from an old Irish breaker, named Fallon, who was born more than a century ago. I had also valuable instruction in horse-taming from Professor Sample. Having read an account of hiM. Raabe and Lunels hz apolasso, as means of control for veterinary operations, I conceived, with happy results, the idea of utilising this ingenious contrivance in breaking. I also learned, about the sameL time, how to balter a loose horse without runningany danger of being kicked, or bitten. Having thus acquired a fair amount of information, on what has always been to me a favourite subject, I naturally wished to put it into practice. As I knew, judging from my former ignorance, how much men in India stood in need of instruction in horse-breaking, I determined to return to that country with the object of teaching this art so as to acquire the experience I needed, and to pay my expenses at the same time. I am glad to say that I was successful in both respects. During a two years tour, I held classes in all the principal stations of the. Empire-from Trichinopoly to Peshawur, and from Quettn to Afandalay-and, having met a very large number of vicious animals and fine horsemen, I obtained experience, and greatly added to my stock of knowledge, which I shall now try to utilise for the benefit of my readers. As I proceeded through India, I felt the necessity of rejecting some methods I had formerly prized, altering others, and adopting new ones so that the course of instruction which I was able to give to my more recent classes, was far more extensive, and 6f better proved utility, than what I had to offer at the beginning of my travels. The great want which I had at first felt, was a method by which a person could secure and handle, with perfect safety, any horse, no matter how vicious he might be. However, after many kicks, a few bites, and several lucky escapes, I was able to perfect the required method, which is so simple, that the only wonder is that I did not think of it before. I may explain that the Australian horses met with in India, where they forin a considerable proportion of the animals used for riding and driving, are far moredangerous ant1 difficult to handle and control than British stock...

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION WHEN I walked through the Omaha Exposition grounds one hot day in September of 1898, on my way to the encampment of the Indian Congress, I found it difficult to realize that only fifty years before, the ground where Omaha now stands had been a camping place for Indians and that only twenty- five years ago, Nebraska, one hundred and fifty miles west of Omaha, had been a country dangerous to pass through, because the home and hunting ground of hostile tribes. All this has been forgotten now except by those who took part in the old life of those times and it was well that by such a gathering as this Indian Congress the past should be recalled and the former wild inhabitants of this fer- tile Western State should be seen by the newcomers who have succeeded them. To one who reflected upon the contrasts here af- forded by the conjunction of the two races, the pres- ence of the red man was full of suggestion. In its display of science and art, of invention, machinery and product, the Exposition stood for the bounding present it marked the swelling tide of the progress of an expanding people it exemplified the attainments of centuries of development...

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PREFACE THE FIFTH EDITION. THE British nation is essentially sporting and horse-loving, so in publishing this fifth edition of Riding and Hunting one feels that no apology is needed for bringing before the public a new and improved edition on matters appertaining to the horse. The first edition, which appeared in 1884, was entitled Riding on the Flat and Across Country two others quickly followed, after which the author entirely revised the work, and added several new illustrations to it, and it appeared in 1901 under the present title, Riding and Hunting. A new 5th edition of this standard work is now required, which has been improved and brought up to date. The Earl of Lonsdale, whose portrait formed the frontispiece of the old edition, has kindly given a more recent photograph for use in the present work, and has, with his usual kind-heartedness, found time amongst his many varied interests to read over the proofs and to add several very useful notes. He considers that the work contains a large amount of very valuable information, although there are some points with which he does not agree. His kindly help and personal interest in this edition have been very greatly appreciated by Mrs. Hayes, who, since the death of her late husband, has had the supervision of his books on horses. The chapter on Military Riding is by Major W. H. King, of the Royal Horse Guards Blues, who most kindly consented to re-write and bring up to date the original one. This treatise on riding was a labour of love to its author, the late Captain Hayes, an enthusiast in all matters connected with horses and riding. After joining the Royal Artillery in India, where he had much experience in racing andsteeplechasing as carried on in that country, he was transferred to the Bengal Staff Corps, in which he served nine years, after which he was one year in The Buffs before retiring from the Service. He spent over twenty years in India, and whilst there published his first book, Training and Horse-Management in India, the sixth edition of which he was revising when he died in 1904, and which was finished after his death by Mrs. Hayes. He also wrote while in India a book entitled Indian Racing Reminiscences, a subject on which he was eminently qualified to write, as he had a stable of ten or twelve horses in training, managing the stable and riding the animals himself, whenever the weight permitted. He also wrote in India his first edition of Veterinary Notes for Horse-Owners. As he had not then taken his veterinary diploma, and as he desired to qualify in order to place this work on a scientific basis, he retired from the Service in 1880 and studied for his veterinary diploma at the New Veterinary College, Edinburgh. He also obtained subsequently the Fellowship degree in London, and his veterinary book, from a small beginning in India, is now a large and important work in its seventh edition. After obtaining his diploma, Captain Hayes toured through India, Egypt, Ceylon, China and South Africa, giving instruction in the breaking of horses. Perhaps the greatest of all this clever writers works is Points of the Horse, a monumental labour which took him over fifteen years to complete. He also wrote Stable Management and Exercise, and purchased the English rights of translation of Professor Friedberger and Frohners Veterinary Pathology, which has been completed and brought up to date by Mrs.Hayes since his death...

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ILLUSTRATED HORSE-BREAKING - 1908 - Dear IRRtfe WHO HAS BEEN MY BEST HELPER AND SOUNDEST ADVISER WHEN I HAVE BEEN BREAKING HORSES IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD - PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. - I OFFER this work to the favourable consideration of the public, as an attempt to describe a reasoned-out system of horse-breaking, which I have found, by practical experience, to be easy of execution, rapid in its effects, and requiring the possession of no exceptional strength, activity, pluck, or horsemanship by the operator, who, to become expert in it, -ill, as a rule, need only practice. It is in accordance with our English and Irish ideas on the subject for it aims at teaching the horse manners, and giving him a snafflebridle mouth so that he will go up to the bridle, and bend himself in thorough obedience to rein and leg. As a personal explanation, I may mention that after having spent many years racing and training in India, during which time I practised the ordinary methods of breaking, I returned to England, where I learned the use of the standing martingale and long driving reins, as applled specially to jumpers, from AIr. John Hubert Aloore, who was the cleverest maker of steeplechasers Ireland ever knew. He, I may remark, obtained these methods, in his youth, from an old Irish breaker, named Fallon, who was born more than a century ago. I had also valuable instruction in horse-taming from Professor Sample. Having read an account of hiM. Raabe and Lunels hz apolasso, as means of control for veterinary operations, I conceived, with happy results, the idea of utilising this ingenious contrivance in breaking. I also learned, about the sameL time, how to balter a loose horse without runningany danger of being kicked, or bitten. Having thus acquired a fair amount of information, on what has always been to me a favourite subject, I naturally wished to put it into practice. As I knew, judging from my former ignorance, how much men in India stood in need of instruction in horse-breaking, I determined to return to that country with the object of teaching this art so as to acquire the experience I needed, and to pay my expenses at the same time. I am glad to say that I was successful in both respects. During a two years tour, I held classes in all the principal stations of the. Empire-from Trichinopoly to Peshawur, and from Quettn to Afandalay-and, having met a very large number of vicious animals and fine horsemen, I obtained experience, and greatly added to my stock of knowledge, which I shall now try to utilise for the benefit of my readers. As I proceeded through India, I felt the necessity of rejecting some methods I had formerly prized, altering others, and adopting new ones so that the course of instruction which I was able to give to my more recent classes, was far more extensive, and 6f better proved utility, than what I had to offer at the beginning of my travels. The great want which I had at first felt, was a method by which a person could secure and handle, with perfect safety, any horse, no matter how vicious he might be. However, after many kicks, a few bites, and several lucky escapes, I was able to perfect the required method, which is so simple, that the only wonder is that I did not think of it before. I may explain that the Australian horses met with in India, where they forin a considerable proportion of the animals used for riding and driving, are far moredangerous ant1 difficult to handle and control than British stock...

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!