Astley's system of equestrian education, exhibiting the beauties and defects of the horse. With serious and important advice, on its general excellence, preserving it in health, grooming, &c / with plates.

  • Astley, Philip, 1742-1814.
Date:
1801
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Credit: Astley's system of equestrian education, exhibiting the beauties and defects of the horse. With serious and important advice, on its general excellence, preserving it in health, grooming, &c / with plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 ASTLEY’S' EQUESTRIAN EDUCATION. easy to himself and pleasant to his rider, joined to grace and elegance. Thus improved, we receive exquisite pleasure in beholding utility and beauty combined; and it certainly becomes an object which yields the highest satisfaction to an observer endowed with taste and discernment. It action of the rider’^s body, as well as the Horse; may, if regular and conformable to the pure art />’ Equitation^ be called in cadence, similar to such measure regulated in dancing, &c. Musical ex- pression, or sound, certainly appertains to the tuition of the Horse, and which I consider as an index to direct his most willing obedience ; more particularly where the Horse is tutored tutak^ up your hat, whip, or handkerchief, and the like. Hence it becomes necessary in some degree, that the professor or rider should have a quick eye, as well as a good musical ear, in order to his attaining some idea of what is understood to be necessary on the firfi point, with regard to regulating his action; and*on the last, to his attaining an idea of soothing and caressing immediately on the least compliance on the part of the Horse to the will of his rider. Cadence also, in my firm opinion, is the very essence of regulating, not only the Horse’s natural paces, but also his artificial airs: in short, every thing where perfection and skill is necessary. But from the word cadence being,to superficially mentioned In. literary works, as well as the rkling.-school, one would think that' the practical part of the art of cadence, so far as appertains to Equestrian Education, wa!s a mere shadow. “ But I am strictly and firmly of opinion, having derived the greatest benefit from-It in the course of my practice,, that it ought to be considered as ^the- Ele J.lus Ultra of B^questrian execution, and generally accepted- as such by all p ofessors of the Equestrian Art.” f /