On Seats and Saddles: Bits and Bitting and the Prevention and Cure of Restiveness in HorsesBlackwood, 1868 - 265 sider |
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Side ix
... degree of handiness as will insure to its rider a perfect command over his weapons , and , in addi- tion to all this , secure for the troop - horse the longest pos- sible period of service - These latter objects are but too frequently ...
... degree of handiness as will insure to its rider a perfect command over his weapons , and , in addi- tion to all this , secure for the troop - horse the longest pos- sible period of service - These latter objects are but too frequently ...
Side x
... degrees of speed , 89-104 PART II . BITS AND BITTING . CHAPTER I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES . Vulgar idea of hard and soft mouthed horses - The horse's head and neck levers , by means of which the animal's body may be steered like a boat by ...
... degrees of speed , 89-104 PART II . BITS AND BITTING . CHAPTER I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES . Vulgar idea of hard and soft mouthed horses - The horse's head and neck levers , by means of which the animal's body may be steered like a boat by ...
Side xi
... degree of painful action - Whatever may be required of this should be exert- ed by mouthpiece , the less the better - Consequences of curb producing a greater amount of painful action than mouthpiece - Length of the bars of bit , whence ...
... degree of painful action - Whatever may be required of this should be exert- ed by mouthpiece , the less the better - Consequences of curb producing a greater amount of painful action than mouthpiece - Length of the bars of bit , whence ...
Side 2
... degree of civilisation , prevailed to a much greater extent than amongst ourselves . It would be invidious , and moreover unnecessary , for the object we have in view , to enter into a minute comparison in this respect of our own ...
... degree of civilisation , prevailed to a much greater extent than amongst ourselves . It would be invidious , and moreover unnecessary , for the object we have in view , to enter into a minute comparison in this respect of our own ...
Side 5
... degree of school - training . Others who were more judi- cious found it impossible to reconcile the well - known docility of the English breed with the fractiousness and intractability of these exported specimens , and came to the very ...
... degree of school - training . Others who were more judi- cious found it impossible to reconcile the well - known docility of the English breed with the fractiousness and intractability of these exported specimens , and came to the very ...
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On Seats and Saddles Bits and Bitting and the Prevention and Cure of ... Francis Dwyer Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1868 |
On Seats and Saddles: Bits and Bitting and the Prevention and Cure of ... Francis Dwyer Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1869 |
On Seats and Saddles Bits and Bitting and the Prevention and Cure of ... Francis Dwyer Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1868 |
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