Riding; Polo (The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, Book 15)

xiii, 423 pp. CONTENTS: Riding: Introduction; Riding to Hounds; The Saddle-horse; Training the Young Horse; Hints on Horsemanship; Hands and Seat; Race Riding; The Colonial Horse; Early History of Horsemanship; Polo: Introductory; The Antiquity of Polo; Polo in England Polo in India; Rules and By-laws of Polo; Ground, Balls, Sticks, Goal-posts, etc.; Breeds of Ponies Suitable for Polo; The Training of Ponies; Some Famous Players and Ponies; How a Polo Match Should be Played; Appendix: Lessons in Riding; Bibliography of Riding; Index.