flectitis

Updated: May 9, 2025

Parade riders are too apt to be contented with wooden paces provided they are short. This is very vicious. Really to collect himself, a horse must bend himself. We cannot too often repeat Ovid’s line, Flectitis aut freno colla sequacis equi.

George Greenwood - Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece: or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding