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Title: Among men and horses
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842-1904
Subjects: Horses Horses -- Training
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead & company
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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e began his particular turnor act. As soon as he had finished his numero, he resumedhis placid way of going, which showed that his brilliancywas not the result of his having been recently tortured.Germinal was supple, light, and executed all his movementswith admirable precision, and with entire absence of fret-fulness. In fact, he appeared to work by the indications ofthe hand and leg and not by the irritation of the spur.Fillis was more starred on the programme than any otherperformer ; a fact which shows how highly esteemed clevercircus riders are on the Continent. The points which I didnot like about his riding were as follows :—(1) His seatwas inelegant; because he humped his back and worked hisbody, arms and legs with far too evident effort to obtaineffect on his horse. (2) He held his hands too close togetheron the reins. In the position he kept them, they had theappearance of those of a man who is trying to steer a boatwith both hands on the tiller. (3) He held his hands too
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Photo, by A. F. Mackenzie, Birnam, N.B. ^jla^i^fi^C James Fill is. 351 high, and consequently there was too much weight on thehind legs of the horse. Yet for all this, he made his horsedo more than I have ever seen any other high school animalperform. The lightness and freedom of Germinal was in singularcontrast to the wooden movements of the horses ridden byHerr Wulff when I saw him in his circus at Henglers. TheGermans seem, in obtaining control over their riding horses,to deprive them of all their spirit, and their animals, as arule, go through their work in a dead, mechanical manner.The French, on the contrary, do all they can to preservethe fire of their animals. Among the former, the control isthat of the breaker; among the latter, that of the rider. Fillis did each night about ten airs, which were put downin the programme, so that one could follow each evolution.I cannot understand why those high school riders who per-form in circuses in England do not grant this favour to thei

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