Excerpt from How to Ride and School a Horse: With a System of Horse Gymnastics IT is to be regretted that, in this nation of horsemen, riding, as practised in the schools, Should have fallen into disuse; for the mane'ge is the foundation of horse manship. This neglect is owing, in a great measure, to the prejudice that once prevailed against the formal seat and the unnecessary airs of la haute-e'cole. But, in most countries of Europe, school-riding has advanced with the age, and it is now recognised, by the professors of the art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.