When my friend was clearing out an old storeroom at her workplace, she found a huge number of books tucked away out of sight. Rather than see them thrown out, I kindly offered to adopt them all for BookCrossing.

There's something slightly fascinating about reading old equitation books - there is still a lot you can learn, but there is also a hell of a lot of stuff that has moved on, thank God. There's some absolutely classics in this book - from admonishing instructors to polish their boots, always wear a hat and carry to crop, to advising that it's never nice to hear female instructors raise their voices - they should be utterly charming at all times!

But that said, this book does goes a basic grounding on teaching, and gives a few examples of how best to achieve the desired results. It's not really how things are done these days, but some of the principles are still very much sound. And for the riders, it gives a very good description of a lot of school movements.

An interesting rather than enjoyable read.

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