Identifier: ridingdrivi00ande (find matches)
Title: Riding and driving
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Anderson, Edward L. (Edward Lowell), 1842-1916 Collier, Price, 1860-1913 Tailer, T. Suffern Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
Subjects: Horsemanship Driving of horse-drawn vehicles CHR 1905 PRO Neifert, Mrs. (donor) PRO Anderson, Edward Lowell, 1842-1916 (autograph, 1905)
Publisher: New York London : The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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R CAVALRY I HAVE said that in tliis country until veryrecent years comparatively little interest was takenin riding except in some of the Southern statesand in the army. This was not because aptitudefor the exercise was confined to certain districts,for the hunt, polo, and riding clubs, and thehorse shows, now so general throughout the con-tinent, are proving that everywhere our coun-trymen have the ability to make good horsemen.In the East there is, for example, Mr. FoxhallKeene, who has a world-wide fame as a thoroughsportsman and a splendid rider; and although hehas perhaps no superior among these there are inNew York and Massachusetts riders of the veryfirst force. When the subject of riding is broached, ourminds naturally turn to Kentucky. From a long line of good horsemen the Ken-tuckian inherits a love for the animal and a talentfor riding, and from childhood he is accustomed tothe saddle. His work in breeding and in traininghas placed his country under a debt of gratitude, 7«
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FIG. 51. —GENERAL CASTLEMAN American Horsemanship 79 Those who are well capable of judging say thatthe sight of General Castleman upon a charger ofhis own breeding is something to remember. Mr.Charles Railey is unrivalled in showing the grace-ful movements of a well-balanced saddle-horse,and all of his family are skilled in the art of riding.These names are mentioned because they are sowidely known, but there is no part of the statein which one may not see that the words Ken-tuckian and horseman are synonymous. Thewriter has no intention of slighting Virginia, Mis-souri, and Illinois, the first-named the cradle ofhorsemanship in this country, the latter two rapidlytaking prominent places in the breeding and inthe training of the riding-horse, but the limits ofthis work prevent full justice being done to all. I have nothing but admiration for the skill anddaring of the riders of the Western plains, buttheir bits, their saddles, and, I may say, theirhorses are unsuited to the uses we

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