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Riding and Hunting By M. Horace Hayes, F.R.C.V.S. (late captain ’’The Buffs’’) ; author
of ’’Points of the horse’’, ’’Veterinary notes for Horse-Owners’’, ’’Stable management
and exercice’’, ’’Illustrated horse breaking’’, ’’Among Horses in Russia’’, etc. With
Illustrations.
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HAYES Matthew Horace
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« About three-quarters of this book is new; the remaining quarter having appeared
in the last (third) edition of
Riding on the Flat and Across Country
, 47 illustrations of which have been utilised. The present work contains 260 illustrations.
In the former book I made no mention of hunting; because, when I wrote it, my riding
experience, except when I was a boy in Ireland, had been chiefly confined to steeplechasing,
racing, schooling and pig-sticking in India, and to military riding when I was a subaltern
in a field battery. On my return to England in 1892, after teaching Boers and other
residents in South Africa how to break in horses, I was fortunately able to spend
two seasons in Leicestershire and one in Cheshire. The knowledge gained during these
three years impressed me so much with the fact that riding in England is almost inseparable
from hunting, that I determined to combine the two subjects as soon as I could collect
sufficient fresh material and new illustrations to justify the change of the former
title to
Riding and Hunting
. During the last four years, I made a special study of the Continental system of
military riding. Being in no way a hound man, I sought and obtained the valuable aid
of Captain King-King, late 13
th
Hussars, whom I had the pleasure of knowing at Melton Mowbray. His deep knowledge
of hunting is the result of an enthusiastic love of the sport, keen observation, and
a life-long experience both in the Shires and in the Provinces. Any merit there may
be in the remarks I have made about hunting belongs to him.
I have to thank Mr. Scarth Dixon for some of the instances I have mentioned in the
chapter on race riding; Messrs. Champion and Wilton, Mr. T. U. Clarke and Mr. Ford
for their valuable professional advice on the subjects of bridles and saddles, and
Mr. Carl Norman, of the Photochrom Company, for the great trouble he took with the
half-tone blocks. All the photographs, with the exception of the frontispiece and
Figs. 81, 88 and 243, were taken by my wife or by myself. » Présentation de l’éditeur
(1901)
: Angleterre , chasse , courses , embouchure , harnachement , mors , position du cavalier , saut d’obstacles , sportman , tenue des rênes