Considerable time was spent in getting the harness in shape, especially the saddles, after which lessons in equitation were again started, also a number of battery mounted hikes inaugurated.
Many of the battery detail were recruits who did not have the lessons in equitation at Camp Meade that the older members of the battery experienced.
Instruction was also started in equitation and harnessing.
As this hold, however, is apt to degenerate into a complete reliance on the third pommel, it is necessary in a more advanced stage of the lessons in equitation to use a saddle without any such support for the pupil.
It is because that system forms, after all, the basis of much that applies to female equitation that I have so frequently quoted from and alluded to it.
This, as regards finish in the rider's hand, is in equitation what tone is in music.
In the first place, then, it is necessary that the professor of equitation should be one who has been regularly brought up to his business.
The captains-instructor of the cavalry regiments, and the instructors of equitationin the artillery regiments, are mostly selected from the graduates.
But it is true that equitation as an art exists only among the military experts of the Old Country, and that the training of English horses is not carried beyond bare mediocrity among civilians for road work.
It is easy to make engravings in which the seat of the rider shall be perfect; but in all the wood-cut illustrations of books on equitation the horse is usually anatomically incorrect, however artistically suggestive.
Do you remember, Patroclus, the days when you carried your little twelve-year-old mistress, and how her first lessons in fine equitation were taken in your company?
I by no means refer to those schools which teach equitation as a true art, instead of merely drilling you in the bald elements of riding.
References to the riding hall are to be understood as ordinarily applying equally to any out-of-doors inclosure or to the space included in any course marked off for instruction in equitation (pars.
By the time the recruit's instruction in equitation has progressed so as to prepare him for mounted drills at the faster gaits, he should have learned the mechanism of all the movements by executing them at a walk.
The following are adapted as closely as possible from the carefully thought-out system of Military Equitation practised in the British Army, and may be executed as follows:-- Prepare for Extension and Balance Motions.
Professors of equitation and authors upon this subject have said that the spurs are to punish the horse when he does not respond to the legs, or when he refuses to approach an object that frightens him.
Hence we arrive at the conclusion that in the manner we have above indicated the whole squadron can have completed its training in equitation by the middle of February.
Horsemanship is so absolutely the bed-rock of all Cavalry performances, that the advantages of improved methods of breaking and of equitation must bear fruit in every branch of their activity.
To constitute a framework, not with a view of developing a fresh network of red tape, I here submit an outline programme of the time-table I suggest, so far as concerns the equitation and the training of the horses in their several periods.
Such a school would be most fittingly affiliated to the existing School of Equitation in Hanover.
From the increased demands made on the individual training of man and horse, it follows as a necessary consequence that a different kind of inspection in equitation will be required to that hitherto in vogue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "equitation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: driving; horsemanship; manage; riding
