The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-30
HOW AMERICANS RIDE.
In Too Much Of Hurry in This as in
Other Things.
from tie NelU York Star.

From the NelO York Star.
some Americans ride WE'LL hut many do
not, said Lieut.. Victor Lindholm, once an
officer in the Danish army, now a riding
master il this city. Lieut.. Lindholm knows
what clever young men and women from
all parts Of the country can and cannot do
when placed on a horse.
What l mean," he continued, sis this:
No people on earth excel the southern and
western men and women in riding at q
canter or dead run, but if you put a Ken
lucky belle, Virginia gentleman, or even
western cowboy on a trOtting horse such
as Is used for park riding, any one of the
three viii cut a sorry figure. Kentuckians
boast that no women i'll the world can ride
like their women, and this is partly true:
but few Kentucky women learn to set a
morse as the fashionable women of the
world ride
The riding master laughed as if he had
amusing mental visions when he was asked
whether the average New Yorker is at home
On horse.
Anything but that, said he. sit is true
that the best riders in America from nv
point of view, live in New York. but they
are made such at the riding schools. The
timidity of men at first learning is absurd.
L would rather teach ten women than
one man. The ladies are nervous at
first, but once they learn to balaGce
they have no more fear. | think the
| difference is caused by the firmer seat that
u woman has. Not that | believe in the
seat, it is cramped and unnatural, and mod
| ern women ought long since to have dis
| carded the English court ladies' servile imi-
tation of Il defOrmed princess 800 years ago,
| who rode thus because she could ride in no
other way. But the seat gives a woma1
confidence, for no horse can throw her if
she learns to sit deep in her saddle and hold
| hard to the ponmel by her right limb
Tine fault of the American rider is the
| fault of American life in other things
| hurry. When once a man gains confidence
he wishes to show himself III public. No
rider should do that until he has taken ten
| lessons, and then he should ride a quiet
| horse. When man comes to me to learn
riding, | ask whether he wishes to be a
thorough horseman or only 90 ride in the
park and in quiet country lanes. Most
men say the latter Few New Workers
learn to ride to hounds. That is common in
| Washington. Well, if a man wishes to be a
thorough horsaman, put him on a horse
without a saddle and teach him to main
tain his seat by pressure of the knees and
the inside Of the upper leg. A good rider,
though he should have his legs cut off at
the knees, would be able to manage a met
tlesome horse. After a pupil has learned
the use of his knees give him saddle and
stlrrups. He still depends on his knees, but
he uses the stirrup as a secondary aid
"If man wishes to learn merely so
much as will enable him to ride in the park
without looking ridiculous, | shorten the
| stlrrups and teach him part of what teach
the other. 1t is matter of a lifetime tc
become good rider. Part of this is to keep
a seat close to the saddle when a horse trots
| The ordinary rider does not learn this. We
teace him to rise in his saddle. It is not
necessary. By perseverance, one can learn
to take off the jolt by giving at the back
and letting the toes rest in the stirrup TX
be really good rider of this sort, however
one must be good gymnast."
DO children learn to ride easilyY'
"Yes, at proper age. 1t is a mistake Il
teach young children to ride, particularly
girls, because the woman's seat is so unnat
ural and so twists the spine that & younc
girl can not well endure it. Girls SHOULD
not begin learning under II years Of age. -
Where do we get our best saddle horses?
There is nothing finer than the well-bret
American horse. The best are from Ken
lucky. They are trained TO high school
there in winter and brought to New Yorl
for sale in April. High school'-that i
when horse is graduated. He can wall
Spanish, trot Spanish, piroutte anc
traverse. These are the graceful motion
you notice in a hlgh-spirited, we'll bret
| AOlsC. "a A4S1 sCHOOl thoroughbred Dflng
from $500 to $1,000. Such horses are bes
at or 2 years of age. Younge
they are but babies and cannot STAN
wear. You must not let an inexpsrience
rider use thoroughbred 1t is dangerou
for the rider and bad for the horse. Tn
thoroughbred is most mettlesome when h.
is well warmed up to his work 1t is thel
that the ordinary horse loses his frisky
spirit. A good rider may do what he viii
with the thoroughbred. Horse and maj
are one. But a bad rider maddens such
horse There are fine horses, too
from Canada, from New Yorl
state and from Virginia TIT
best riding horse is from fifteen to sixtee1
hands high. The broncho? You canno
trust him. Perhaps he may serve you wei
for four or I've years, AID then suddenly
he will buck. rode broncho in Brook
Ign for eight days. He was delightful
Then suddenly on the ninth day he begar
bucking l staid on him, but thought hi
would drive my spine up into my brain
When he could not get me off he fell ovel
on his side, and / just escaped a broker
leg and crushing by quick leap"