| John Lawrence - Horses - 1796 - 416 pages
...the horfe fliould be touched by the fpur. Grafp the reins with your hand, putting your little finger between them. Your hand muft be perpendicular, your...cheek : to hold a horfe by the curb, when he is to ftand ftill, is very wrong, becaufe it puts him to needlefs pain. " When you are troubled with a horfe... | |
| Domestic animals - 1800 - 594 pages
...the horfe fhould be touched by the fpur. Grafp the reins with your hand, putting your little finger between them. Your hand muft be perpendicular, your...only to meddle with that part of the headftall, which come's down the horfe's cheek , to hold a horfe by the curb, when he is to ftand ftill, is very wrong,... | |
| Sports - 1800 - 596 pages
...hand, putting your little finger between them. Your hand mull he perpendicular, your thumb uppcrmofl upon the bridle. " Suffer him not to finger the reins...the horfe) but only to meddle with that part of the headfrall, which come's down the horfe's cheek ,. to hold a horfe by the curb, when he is to íland... | |
| Henry James Pye - Hunting - 1807 - 608 pages
...the horfe should be touched by the fpur. Grafps the reins with your hand, putting your little finger between them. Your hand muft be perpendicular, your...Suffer him not to finger the reins (the groom, in Tiolding the horfe) but only to meddle with that part of the headftall, which comes down the horfe's... | |
| Harry Harewood - Sports - 1835 - 384 pages
...hand, putting your little finger between them. Your hand must be perpendicular, your '.humb uppermost upon the bridle. " Suffer him not to finger the reins (the groom, in holding the horse) but only to meddle with that part of the headstall, which comes down the horse's cheek ; to... | |
| Thomas Burgeland Johnson - Great Britain - 1848 - 1102 pages
...hand, putting your little finger between them. Your hand must be perpendicular, your thumb uppermost upon the bridle. Suffer him not to finger the reins (the groom, in holding the horse), but only to meddle with that part of the head-stall which comes down the horse's cheek : to... | |
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