Riding and driving for women (1912) (14584306400)

Identifier: ridingdrivingfor00beac (find matches)
Title: Riding and driving for women
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Beach, Belle
Subjects: Horses Horsemanship Driving of horse-drawn vehicles
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University



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his book is limited in its scope to riding and■ driving for women, I shall not attempt to dis-cuss four-in-hand and tandem driving in detail, andfor a very exhaustive work on four-in-hand driving,would refer the reader to A Manual of Coaching,by Fairman Rogers (Philadelphia, J. B. LippincottCo., 1900), and to Driving for Pleasure, by FrankUnderbill (D. Appleton, 1897). One of the best short books on the techniqueof driving is Hints on Driving, by Captain C.Morley-Knight, R. A. (George Bell & Sons, London,1895). Chapter VI of that book describes in detailthe method of holding and shortening the rei is infour-in-hand driving, and chapter X the same prob-lem in tandem driving. Like other English authori-ties, he, however, gives quite a different position forthe right hand in tandem driving from that in four-in-hand driving, while the chief American writers,and nearly all the best whips of my acquaintance,advocate and use substantially the same position ofthe right hand in both. 217
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o c o y. u. c c o < «< FOUR-IN-HAND AND TANDEM DRIVING Before beginning to drive either tandem or four-in-hand, it is absolutely essential that you becomeproficient in handling the whip, and I would stronglyadvise learning to catch a thong, by daily prac-