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In a century filled with dashing, colorful, and controversial British cavalrymen, Captain Lewis Edward Nolan may hold pride of place. He made his name as “a superlative horse-master, swordsman and steeplechase rider”.
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François Robichon de la Guérinière invoked Cavendish in the immensely influential 18th-century treatise École de Cavalerie (1733) as “the greatest expert of his age in the matter of horses.”
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Though Early Modern British horsemen, like generations of their descendants, preferred hunting to schooling, “manège riding,” “had been practiced at the English court since the early sixteenth century”.
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Whatever one’s discipline or its tutelary giants, rereading Xenophon of Athens, the celebrated horseman from classical antiquity, always repays the effort.
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Two new volumes offer an insight into Britain’s social history through horse racing and the breeding ventures of a famous aristocratic.
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French and German master equestrians clashed in mid to late-century over the proper theory and practice of dressage and equitation, particularly as they pertained to the training of military horses and riders.
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Both “Real War Horses: The Experiences of the British Cavalry, 1814-1914” and “Horses in the British Army, 1750-1950” add value to the critical literatures on cavalry and warhorses.
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General François Faverot de Kerbrech’s “Methodical Dressage of the Riding Horse” (1891), with “Dressage of the Outdoor Horse” (1907), and Étienne Beudant’s “Horse Training, Outdoor and High School”.
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The latest in the Santini series features two posthumous works from the man known as Caprilli’s “intermediary and interpreter”.
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“Horses of the Great War” offers a very engaging and edifying overview essay to non-specialist readers interested in horses, modern warfare, or art depicting them.
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In the opening chapter, Santini briefly invokes Caprilli as the founder of a system of horsemanship based on “the principles that a horse should be interfered with as little as possible.”
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We read Pluvinel and de la Guérinière today not only to learn technique, but also to understand history, and reading them is well worth the time and effort that they demand and deserve.
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Santini offers clear technical guidelines on “how to balance the horse through engagement of the haunches, enlightened use of the seat, and conscientious elasticity of the rein contact”.
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Major Piero Santini, arguably Federico Caprilli’s most ardent disciple, achieved recognition and praise as an equestrian, instructor, author, and tireless advocate for forward riding,
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Two new offerings give both a historical and modern look at Austrian equitation.
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How a major imperial power outfitted its military up to WW1.
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A glimpse inside a collection of horse books spanning nearly four centuries.
Read moreCharles Caramello sharpens his pencil and gets to work as a dressage writer for horse trials competitions.
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A look at Grisone’s Rules of Riding and Tomassini’s The Italian Tradition.
Read moreRich intellectual and practical resource and a very good “read.”
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