A New System of Horsemanship. Bourgelat Claude
Translation will, want none. Of this however his Readers will be the best Judges; he will say no more of himself, but that he has endeavoured to make the Work as perfect as he could; and for this Reason will be very ready to own any Faults that may be pointed out; for, though desirous of Approbation, he is not vain enough to think, there may not be room for Censure.
TABLE OF CHAPTERS.
| I. | Of the Horseman's Seat | 1 |
| II. | Of the Hand, and its Effects | 10 |
| III. | Of Disobedience in Horses, and the Means to correct it | 19 |
| IV. | Of the Trot | 33 |
| V. | Of the Stop | 43 |
| VI. | Of teaching a Horse to go backward | 50 |
| VII. | Of the uniting or putting a Horse together | 54 |
| VIII. | Of the Pillars | 60 |
| IX. | Of Aids and Corrections | 64 |
| X. | Of the Passage | 75 |
| XI. | Of working with the Head and Croupe to the Wall | 79 |
| XII. | Of Changes of the Hand, large and narrow, and of Voltes and Demi-voltes | 82 |
| XIII. | Of the Aids of the Body | 92 |
| XIV. | Of the Gallop | 98 |
| XV. | Of Passades | 107 |
| XVI. | Of Pesades | 111 |
| XVII. | Of the Mezair | 115 |
| XVIII. | Of Curvets | 117 |
| XIX. | Of Croupades and Balotades | 129 |
| XX. | Of Caprioles | 132 |
| XXI. | Of the Step and Leap | 142 |
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A
NEW SYSTEM
OF
HORSEMANSHIP.
CHAP. I.
Of the Horseman's Seat.
The Principles and Rules which have hitherto been given for the Horseman's Seat, are various, and even opposite,