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Author: Charles Caramello

Errol Flynn in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936).
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Captain Lewis Edward Nolan: Horseman, Horse Soldier, and Military Scapegoat

December 14, 2021December 14, 2021 Charles Caramello 5187 Views 0 Comments

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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From A General System of Horsemanship (1743).
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William Cavendish: An English Giant of French Dressage

September 21, 2020September 22, 2020 Charles Caramello 9382 Views 2 Comments History

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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Sixteenth-century English books on horsemanship

July 27, 2020 Charles Caramello 5219 Views 0 Comments

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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Cavaliers: Block II from the west frieze of the Parthenon, ca. 447–433 BC.
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Rereading Xenophon’s “On Horsemanship”

June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 Charles Caramello 8950 Views 0 Comments History

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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The match between Driver and Aaron at Maidenhead, by Richard Roper (1754).
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Horses, historians, and early modern England

January 3, 2019April 14, 2020 Charles Caramello 12922 Views 1 Comment History

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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James Fillis
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The Franco-German (dressage) war

August 13, 2018April 14, 2020 Charles Caramello 16178 Views 0 Comments History

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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Mounted and dismounted members of the Scots Greys, 1898. From left, Mounted Drill Order; Sergeant-Major Standard-Bearer in Full Dress; trooper wearing Review Order; a mounted orderly and a dismounted orderly. From Real War Horses: The Experiences of the British Cavalry, 1814-1914.
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Equines and the Empire: British war horses revealed

May 26, 2018April 14, 2020 Charles Caramello 14494 Views 0 Comments War Horses

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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Revisiting equestrian classics: Outdoor Baucherists

October 16, 2017April 14, 2020 Charles Caramello 12944 Views 0 Comments

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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Posthumous Santini: Horseman’s Dictionary and Caprilli Papers

June 26, 2017April 14, 2020 Charles Caramello 14740 Views 0 Comments

The latest in the Santini series features two posthumous works from the man known as Caprilli’s “intermediary and interpreter”.

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Harold Power, "Bringing Up the Guns".
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Picturing horses in the Great War

May 18, 2017April 14, 2020 Charles Caramello 17257 Views 0 Comments History, War Horses

“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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Santini’s first foray: Riding Reflections

May 4, 2017April 14, 2020 Charles Caramello 10845 Views 1 Comment

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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Royal Equerries: Pluvinel and de la Guérinière

February 25, 2017April 14, 2020 Charles Caramello 16566 Views 0 Comments History

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 redux: Caprilli’s disciple and the forward riding revolution

February 12, 2017April 14, 2020 Charles Caramello 8559 Views 0 Comments

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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The Greater Santini

September 16, 2016April 14, 2020 Charles Caramello 9117 Views 0 Comments

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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The Austrian Connection

July 2, 2016April 14, 2020 Charles Caramello 8088 Views 1 Comment

Two new offerings give both a historical and modern look at Austrian equitation.

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Equines in the Anglo-Boer and Great Wars

February 27, 2016April 14, 2020 Charles Caramello 6557 Views 0 Comments

How a major imperial power outfitted its military up to WW1.

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Great Books on Horsemanship thoroughly catalogues Dejager’s stellar collection of horse books.
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Horseman as Bookman: The Library of Johan Dejager

November 5, 2015April 14, 2020 Charles Caramello 7337 Views 0 Comments

A glimpse inside a collection of horse books spanning nearly four centuries.

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The perks of being a dressage scribe

November 4, 2015July 11, 2016 Charles Caramello 5026 Views 0 Comments

Charles Caramello sharpens his pencil and gets to work as a dressage writer for horse trials competitions.

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Dressage Italian Style

May 22, 2015April 14, 2020 Charles Caramello 8659 Views 0 Comments History

A look at Grisone’s Rules of Riding and Tomassini’s The Italian Tradition.

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How German is it – H Dv 12 cavalry manual

March 15, 2015April 14, 2020 Charles Caramello 10988 Views 0 Comments

Rich intellectual and practical resource and a very good “read.”

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