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Quotes About Horsemanship

chivalry' (a word deriving from horsemanship) had few of the connotations we attach to it today. Like notions of 'honour' – usually a peevishly dangerous self-esteem
~ Richard Woodman
To turn and wind a fiery PegasusAnd witch the world with noble horsemanship.
~ William Shakespeare
Horsemanship should be fun. By learning how to control your horse in any situation, your confidence will greatly increase. When you're confident, you can relax and enjoy your partnership.
~ Clinton Anderson
I think I've always used the whip in the correct way. I see marked horses every day, and it's not a pretty sight, but I've never marked a horse. Never.
~ Tony McCoy
Always, when I get onto horseback, I'm kind of terrified of being up there.
~ Gustaf Skarsgard
Comme tous les grands seigneurs de cette époque, il montait à cheval et faisait des armes dans la perfection.
~ Alexandre Dumas
To ABATE [only in 1755 edition] (ABATE)   [in horsemanship.] A horse is said to abate or take down his curvets; when working upon curvets, he puts his two hind-legs to the ground both at once, and observes the same exactness in all the times.Dict.   
~ Samuel Johnson
You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance.
~ William Cavendish
True horsemanship is developed in the mindful quality of everything we do—not just in the quality of everything we do with our horses.
~ Mark Rashid
They say princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship. The reason is the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
~ Ben Jonson
I didn't just show up as a walk-on back in 1989. I've done this my whole life, and I'd tell any young trainer to start in quarter horses because you have to do everything. I broke them, rode them, wrapped them and slept with them since I was a boy.
~ Bob Baffert
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
~ Ben Jonson
Horsemanship and the cowboy lifestyle and my culture as a Native American are all three things that are very, very important to me.
~ Brady Jandreau
In towns, the nomads remain outsiders for a while. They become a class divorced from their occupation as herders. They are called drokpa in an undertone that indicates an unsophisticated, uneducated person, a person still in progress. In their own villages they are known to everyone for their horsemanship, their ability to round cattle, their weaving skills, for being a good child to their parents, or simply for their ability to make good yogurt and dried cheese.
~ Unknown
I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.
~ Buck Brannaman
We train in strategy, geography, horsemanship, weaponry, that sort of thing. We study great battles in history and analyze the outcome. The
~ Cinda Williams Chima
But he, mighty man, lay mightily in the whirl of dust, forgetful of his horsemanship.
~ Homer
I take it you don't ride often in town?" "No, I travel by foot or hackney." "But your brother…" Kathleen began, thinking of Devon's assured horsemanship. "He rides every morning. A big dapple gray that's as mean as the devil if it goes one day without hard exercise." A pause. "They have that in common.
~ Lisa Kleypas