Excerpt from Rules for Bad Horsemen: Hints to Inexpert Travellers; And Maxims Worth Remembering by the Most Experienced Equestrians
Apprehension seems to have gone abroad on the subject; and the reproach is as appli cable to the present generation of horsemen as it was to the former; for, if a young fel low can ride a fox-chase, or a horse-race, he thereupon considers himself a good horse man,' and, what is still more provoking, he is so considered by others Of his own school. Should he have a horse he cannot manage, he will tell you, that he designs to tame h1m by hunting, that is to say, if he can once get him to go forward he will tire him for a time. But what end does this answer? None permanently; for, by a week's rest, the horse becomes as unruly as ever; and we are constrained to admit, that a man who cannot manage his horse in full con dition, cannot well be Said to manage him at.
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