A New System of Horsemanship. Bourgelat Claude

Translation will, want none. Of this however his Readers will be the best Judges; he will say no more of himself, but that he has endeavoured to make the Work as perfect as he could; and for this Reason will be very ready to own any Faults that may be pointed out; for, though desirous of Approbation, he is not vain enough to think, there may not be room for Censure.

TABLE OF CHAPTERS.

       Table of Contents

I.	Of the Horseman's Seat	1
II.	Of the Hand, and its Effects	10
III.	Of Disobedience in Horses, and the Means to correct it	19
IV.	Of the Trot	33
V.	Of the Stop	43
VI.	Of teaching a Horse to go backward	50
VII.	Of the uniting or putting a Horse together	54
VIII.	Of the Pillars	60
IX.	Of Aids and Corrections	64
X.	Of the Passage	75
XI.	Of working with the Head and Croupe to the Wall	79
XII.	Of Changes of the Hand, large and narrow, and of Voltes and Demi-voltes	82
XIII.	Of the Aids of the Body	92
XIV.	Of the Gallop	98
XV.	Of Passades	107
XVI.	Of Pesades	111
XVII.	Of the Mezair	115
XVIII.	Of Curvets	117
XIX.	Of Croupades and Balotades	129
XX.	Of Caprioles	132
XXI.	Of the Step and Leap	142

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      Page 36. for Remingue read Ramingue. p. 38. dele and. p. 66. for in read it. p. 79. for Care read Ease. p. 80. for acting read aiding. p. 85. dele so. p. 116. for Lines read Times.

      A

       NEW SYSTEM

       OF

       HORSEMANSHIP.

      CHAP. I.

       Of the Horseman's Seat.

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       The Principles and Rules which have hitherto been given for the Horseman's Seat, are various, and even opposite,