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Encyclopedia Britannica



HORSEMANSHIP

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 726 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HOR-I25
HORSEMANSHIP , the art of managing the horse from his back and controlling his paces and the direction and speed of his
movement
 . The ordinary procedure is dealt with in the articles on RIDING and cognate subjects (see also HORSE: section Management). A
special
  kind of skill is, however, needed in breaking, training, bitting and schooling horses for a game like polo, or for the evolutions of what is known as the haute ecole. It is with the latter, or " school " riding, that we deal here. The middle ages had seen
chivalry
  developed into a social distinction, and horsemanship into a form of knightly prowess. The Renaissance introduced the cultivation of horsemanship as an art, with regular conditions and rules, instead of merely its skilful practice for utility and exercise. In Italy in the 16th century schools of horsemanship were established at Naples, Rome and other
chief
  cities; thither flocked the
nobility
  of France, Spain and Germany; and Henry VIII. of England and other monarchs of his time had Italians for their masters of the horse. The academy of Pignatelli at Naples was the most famous of the schools in the middle of the 16th century, but a score of other less renowned masters devoted themselves to teaching the riders and training the horses. Trappings of all sorts multiplied; the prescribed tricks, feats and postures involved considerable dexterity; they were fatiguing to both man and beast, and were really useless except for show. This elaborate art, enthusiastically followed among the Romance nations, was the parent of later developments of the haute 'tole, and of the
circus
 -performances of modern days. In England, however, the continental style did not find favour for long. The duke of Newcastle's Methode nouvelle de dresser les chevaux (1648) was the leading text-book of the day, and in 1761 the
earl
  of Pembroke published his
Manual
  of Cavalry Horsemanship. In France a simplification was introduced in the early part of the 18th century by La Gueriniere (Ecole de cavalerie) and others. The French military school thus became the model for Europe, though the English style remained in opposition, forming a sort of compromise with the ordinary method of riding across country. In more modern times France again came to the front in regard to the haute 'tole, through the innovations of the vicomte d'Aure (1798-1863) and Francois Baucher (1796-1873). Baucher was a
circus
 -rider who became the greatest master of his art, and who had an elaborate theory of the principles involved in training a horse. His system was carried on, with modifications, by masters and theorists like Captain Raabe, M. Barroil and M. Fillis. In more
recent
  times the style of the haute 'tole has also been cultivated by various masters in the United States, such as H. L. de Bussigny at Boston.
See d'Aure, Trade d'equitation (1847); Hundersdorf, Equitation allemande (Bruxelles, 1843); Baucher, Passe-temps equestres (1840), Methode d' equitation (1867 ; Raabe, Methode de haute 'tole d' equitation (1863); Barroil, Art equestre; Fillis, Principes de dressage; Hayes,
Riling on the flat, &c. (1882).


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