Abstract
THIS book is described as “a Handbook on Present-day Training in Equitation,” and, as the title indicates, it includes the necessary training of both man and horse in the methods by which that remarkable sympathy between horse and man can be established. As the author so admirably shows, successful equitation depends on the establishment of this link. Scientifically, we may be permitted to doubt whether the material indications of intention (the rein, spur and so forth) are the true media of communication between man and horse. The manner in which the dog, too, divines his master's mind, is scarcely capable of simple explanation. A well-written and attractive book.
Sympathetic Training of Horse and Man.
Major T. S.
Paterson
By. Pp. xi+205+8 plates. (London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 1925). 12s. 6d. net.
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'Sympathetic Training of Horse and Man. Nature 117, 549 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117549d0
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