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  _THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN'S LIBRARY_

    _EDITED BY_
  _CASPAR WHITNEY_


                        RIDING AND DRIVING

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

The Gallop-change from Right to Left. The horse, having been in
gallop right, has just gone into air from the right fore leg. The
right hind leg was then planted, which will be followed in turn by
the left hind leg, then the right fore leg, and lastly the left
fore leg, from which the horse will go into air; the change from
gallop right to gallop left having been made without disorder or a
false step.




                        RIDING AND DRIVING


                              RIDING

                                BY

                        EDWARD L. ANDERSON

       AUTHOR OF "MODERN HORSEMANSHIP," "CURB, SNAFFLE, AND
                         SPUR," ETC., ETC.


                              DRIVING

             HINTS ON THE HISTORY, HOUSING, HARNESSING
                     AND HANDLING OF THE HORSE

                                BY

                           PRICE COLLIER




                             New York
                       THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
                   LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

                               1905

                       _All rights reserved_




                         COPYRIGHT, 1905.

                     BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.


          Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1905.


                          _Norwood Press
             J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
                      Norwood, Mass., U.S.A._




                             CONTENTS


RIDING

BY EDWARD L. ANDERSON


CHAPTER                                                      PAGE

      I. BREEDING THE SADDLE-HORSE                              3

     II. HANDLING THE YOUNG HORSE                              20

    III. THE PURCHASE, THE CARE, AND THE SALE OF
         THE SADDLE-HORSE                                      30

     IV. SOME SADDLE-HORSE STOCK FARMS                         47

      V. THE SADDLE--THE BRIDLE--HOW TO MOUNT                  54

     VI. THE SEAT--GENERAL HORSEMANSHIP                        64

    VII. AMERICAN HORSEMANSHIP--OUR CAVALRY                    78

   VIII. HOW TO RIDE--THE SNAFFLE-BRIDLE--THE
         WALK AND THE TROT--SHYING--THE CUNNING
         OF THE HORSE--SULKING--REARING--DEFEATING
         THE HORSE                                             85

     IX. WHAT TRAINING WILL DO FOR A HORSE--THE
         FORMS OF COLLECTION                                  103

      X. THE SPUR                                             109

     XI. SOME WORK ON FOOT--THE SUPPLING                      112

    XII. THE CURB-AND-SNAFFLE BRIDLE--GUIDING BY
         THE REIN AGAINST THE NECK--CROUP ABOUT
         FOREHAND--UPON TWO PATHS                             121

   XIII. THE GALLOP, AND THE GALLOP CHANGE--WHEEL
         IN THE GALLOP--PIROUETTE TURN--HALT IN
         THE GALLOP                                           127

    XIV. BACKING                                              135

     XV. JUMPING                                              138

    XVI. GENERAL REMARKS                                      147


DRIVING

BY PRICE COLLIER


INTRODUCTION                                                    I

     I. ECONOMIC VALUE OF THE HORSE                           159

    II. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE HORSE                      169

   III. THE EARLY DAYS OF THE HORSE IN AMERICA                179

    IV. POINTS OF THE HORSE                                   195

     V. THE STABLE                                            211

    VI. FEEDING AND STABLE MANAGEMENT                         225

   VII. FIRST AID TO THE INJURED                              239

  VIII. SHOEING                                               251

    IX. HARNESS                                               259

     X. THE AMERICAN HORSE                                    284

    XI. A CHAPTER OF LITTLE THINGS                            300

   XII. DRIVING ONE HORSE                                     315

  XIII. DRIVING A PAIR                                        333

   XIV. DRIVING FOUR                                          353

    XV. THE TANDEM                                            392

   XVI. DRIVING TANDEM. By T. Suffern Tailer                  401

  BIBLIOGRAPHY                                                427

  INDEX                                                       429




ILLUSTRATIONS

RIDING

BY EDWARD L. ANDERSON

  The Gallop-change from Right to Left. The horse, having
  been in gallop right, has just gone into air from the
  right fore leg. The right hind leg was then planted,
  which will be followed in turn by the left hind leg, then
  the right fore leg, and lastly the left fore leg, from
  which the horse will go into air; the change from
  gallop right to gallop left having been made without
  disorder or a false step                         _Frontispiece_

  FIGURE                                              FACING PAGE

   1. Race-horse in Training. Photograph by R. H. Cox           5

   2. Dick Wells. Holder of the world's record for one mile.
      Photograph by R. H. Cox.                                  5

   3. Thoroughbred Mare, L'Indienne. Property of Major
      David Castleman. Photograph by the author                 7

   4. Cayuse. Photograph by W. G. Walker                        7

   5. Abayan Koheilan. Arab stallion, bred by Amasi Hamdani,
      Smyri, Sheik of the District of Nagd. Property
      of Sutherland Stock Farm, Cobourg, Canada                 7

   6. Norwegian