 | Donald Walker - Athletics - 1835 - 444 pages
...twelve inches from the saddle, feeling the horse's mouth very lightly ; — the right hand dropping the reins to the off side, takes a lock of the mane, brings it through the left, and twists it round the left thumb; — the fingers of the left hand close on it; — the right hand... | |
 | Donald Walker - 1840 - 418 pages
...twelve inches from the saddle, feeling the horse's mouth very lightly ; — the right hand, dropping the reins to the off side, takes a lock of the mane, brings it through the left, and twists it round the left thumb ; — the fingers of the left hand close on it ; — the right hand... | |
 | Army - 1844 - 298 pages
...reins on the horse's mouth ; the right hand remaining over the left. " Three." The right hand throws the reins to the off side, takes a lock of the mane,...it through the left hand, and twists it round the left thumb ; the left hand closes firmly on the mane and reins, the right hand now quits the mane,... | |
 | William Lennox L. Fitzgerald De-Ros (23rd baron.) - 1844 - 262 pages
...reins on the horse's mouth, the right hand remaining over the left. "Three." The right hand throws the reins to the off side, takes a lock of the mane,...it through the left hand, and twists it round the left thumb; the left hand closes firmly on the mane and reins, the right hand quits the mane, and lays... | |
 | Army - 1853 - 240 pages
...reins on the horse's mouth, the right hand remaining nver the left. " Three." The right hand throws the reins to the off side takes a lock of the mane,...it through the left hand, and twists it round the left thumb; the left hand closes firmly on the mane and reins, the right hand quits the mane, and lays... | |
 | John Henry Turner Warde - Horsemanship - 1855 - 24 pages
...them so that the left has an equal feeling of the reins in the horse's mouth. 3. The right hand throws the reins to the off side, takes a lock of the mane and twists it round the thumb, the right hand then takes hold of the left stirrup. 4. The left foot... | |
 | Donald Walker - Athletics - 1856 - 438 pages
...about twelve inches from the saddle, feeling the horse's mouth very lightly; the right hand, dropping the reins to the off side, takes a lock of the mane, brings it through the left, and twists it round the left thumb ; the fingers of the left hand close on it ; the right hand is placed... | |
 | War office, John Bower (Lieut.-Colonel.) - 1863 - 162 pages
...rein, the left slides forward upon it, about twelve inches from the saddle, feeling the horse's mouth lightly. Three. The right hand drops the reins to the off side, takes a lock of the mane, as in mounting ; the right hand is placed on the pummel, the body erect. Dismount, in four motions.... | |
 | War office - 1869 - 260 pages
...used singly. " Two." The right hand holding the rein, the left slides forward upon it, about twelve inches from the saddle, feeling the horse's mouth...right hand drops the reins to the off side, takes o lock of the mane, brings it through the left hand, and twists it round. the thumb, the fingers of... | |
 | War office - 1865 - 242 pages
...reins, on the horse's mouth ; the right hand remaining over the left. " Three." The right hand throws the reins to the off side, takes a lock of the mane, brings it through the left hand, arid twists it round the left thumb; the left hand closes firmly on the' mane and reins, the right... | |
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The right hand throws the reins to the off side, takes a lock of the mane, brings it through the left hand, and twists it round the left thumb ; the left hand closes firmly on the mane and reins, the right hand now quits the mane, and lays hold of the... 
