Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-02-24
4 MODEL E:IDING SCHOOL.

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& MODEL EIDING SCHOOL.
We are clad to perceive that q taste Tor
the saddle is most decidedly on the increase
with our young people Of both sexes III New
York. and we think that this journal has a
fair claim to some credit for having promot-
ed it. The truth is that a certain amount OF
equestrian skill will soon be recognized here,
as it is by the better classes abroad, as a nee
essary accomplishment without Which the
education OF neither gentleman nor lady
will be considered complete.
South Of the Potomac those who do not
ride we'll enough for all practical purposes
are the rare exceptions, and the girls are as
much at home on a h~igll-spirited horse as
they are upon a ballroom floor, and they
never appear so large as when in the saddle.
This may be attributed to hereditary tastes
derived from their British ancestry, and to
the bad roads in the South, upon which the
discomforts and indeed the positive dangers
of travel are much greater on wheels than
upon the back of a sure-footed horse. Here
in New York, until the Central Park was
laid out, there was no pleasant place where
a lady cold indulge in security in a pleasant
canter on horseback, that most delightful
and inspiriting of all outdoor %enjoyments,
III which a graceful figure is shown to the
best advantage, and which gives to the eye
that b%rilliancy, to the complexion that glow
and to the nerves that firmness and temper
indicative Of the perfect health, SO indispen-
| sible to the highest order of beauty. Until
recently good saddle-horses were rare in
New York, and even now they must be
sought for in Kentucky and the Southern
States, but a greater difficulty here has been
to find competent riding masters. The fact
is, that riding masters, like poets, must be
born such. 1t is one thing to ride well and
quite another to impart the art to others.
I~mpecunious foreigners have set up for rid
ing masters without the slightest claim to the
title; their claims were never disputed, be-
cause the general impression is that the
whole duty of the teacher is to familiarize
his pupils with the saddle, and tina their
equestrian education is finished when they
can stick on and guide the horse at his vari-
ous gaits without tllmbling Oft. 70 sit a
horse without falling is but the A B G. of an
art in Which il is as difficult to excel as it is
to become an accomplished fencer or SWIM
mer. Indeed it requires many months at
tendance at the riding school, under an ac-
complished master, to acquire the equestrian
skill eXacted by the Continental Govern
ments from all aspirants to commissions in
the army.
We are familiar with the riding schools
both at home and abroud, but have never
seen in any Of them a teacher so thoroughly
capable Of imparting all the niceties Of the
equestrian art as Mr.. De Bussigny, who.
with the ~well-knoWn Fred Englehardt, has
founded the Central Park Riding School.
Mr.. De Bussigny is a graduate OF the great
French schools Of Saumer and Abort. and
he teaches the philosophy of riding-not
only to back a horse, but to control and
manage him, if necessary, with a pack
thread for bride reins. We have never seen
his equal in imparting to his pupils a firm
graceful seat and light, flexible hand
TuaJ, Field and Farm.
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erance 81 Poet. of Alamada. Cal. eives ms