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HORSEMANSHIP
, the See also:art of managing the See also:horse from his back and controlling his paces and the direction and See also:speed of his See also:movement
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The See also:ordinary See also:procedure is dealt with in the articles on See also:RIDING and cognate subjects (see also HORSE: See also:section Management)
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A See also:special See also:kind of skill is, however, needed in breaking, training, bitting and schooling horses for a See also:game like See also:polo, or for the evolutions of what is known as the haute ecole
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It is with the latter, or " school " riding, that we See also:deal here
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The See also:middle ages had seen See also:chivalry See also:developed into a social distinction, and horsemanship into a See also:form of knightly prowess
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The See also:Renaissance introduced the cultivation of horsemanship as an art, with See also:regular conditions and rules, instead of merely its skilful practice for utility and exercise
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In See also:Italy in the 16th See also:century See also:schools of horsemanship were established at See also:Naples, See also:Rome and other See also:chief cities; thither flocked the See also:nobility of See also:France, See also:Spain and See also:Germany; and See also: In France a simplification was introduced in the See also:early See also:part of the 18th century by La Gueriniere (Ecole de cavalerie) and others . The See also:French military school thus became the See also:model for See also:Europe, though the See also:English style remained in opposition, forming a sort of See also:compromise with the ordinary method of riding across See also:country . In more modern times France again came to the front in regard to the haute 'tole, through the innovations of the vicomte d'Aure (1798-1863) and See also:Francois Baucher (1796-1873) . Baucher was a circus-rider who became the greatest See also:master of his art, and who had an elaborate theory of the principles involved in training a horse . His See also:system was carried on, with modifications, by masters and theorists like See also:Captain See also:Raabe, M . Barroil and M . Fillis . In more See also:recent times the style of the haute 'tole has also been cultivated by various masters in the See also:United States, such as H . L. de Bussigny at See also:Boston . See d'Aure, See also:Trade d'equitation (1847); Hundersdorf, Equitation See also:allemande (Bruxelles, 1843); Baucher, Passe-temps equestres (1840), Methode d' equitation (1867 ; Raabe, Methode de haute 'tole d' equitation (1863); Barroil, Art equestre; Fillis, Principes de dressage; See also:Hayes, Riling on the See also:flat, &c . (1882) . |
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