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Equitation (1922)
by Henry L. de Bussigny

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EQUITATION

BY

H. L. DE BUSSIGNY

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

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BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

1922

Contents

PART I - THE USUAL OR INSTINCTIVE EQUITATION

PART II - THE REASONED EQUITATION : THE TRAINING OF THE SADDLE-HORSE BY THE AID OF PRINCIPLES BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF MASTERS OF THE ART OF RIDING

· The reasoned equitation
· Breaking in
· Rewards and punishments
· The first work on foot
· The flexions
· Backing and the pirouettes
· The handling of the reins
· The first work mounted: the hands and the aids
· The legs and their effects
· The spurs and their effects
· Mobilizations mounted
· The flexions mounted
· Placing the horse and the variants from the "in hand"
· The assemblage

PART III - THE SCIENTIFIC EQUITATION

· The diagonal effect
· The figures of manege
· My own system
· The jambettes
· The Spanish walk
· The Spanish and the flying trot
· The piaffer
· The passage
· The passage backward
· Hands without legs: legs without hands

PART IV - THE DEFENSES OF THE HORSE AND THEIR CORRECTION

· The defenses of the horse and their correction

APPENDIX

· Report of a commission of three officers of the United States Army on the de Bussigny system

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