The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the FieldTaplin, William
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The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field
Taplin, William
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MANEGE.—The MANEGE is a term used in a synonymous sense with equestrian
academy, or riding school; implying not only the receptacle itself, but
the instructions there to be derived from those who profess to teach the
ART of HORSEMANSHIP by riding the great horse. There are many of this
description, and of much celebrity, in and round the Metropolis, replete
with every convenience for the accommodation of gentlemen, and the
breaking of horses; and for ladies also, who have the advantage of
riding under cover at all seasons of the year. In every MANEGE a
centrical spot is appropriated to the regulating the round or volts, in
which is fixed a pillar; and to this horses are occasionally fastened in
their first lessons. Other pillars are likewise placed in pairs at the
sides of the manege, for the more perfect completion of their volts and
airs.
The MANEGE may be properly divided into the GREATER and the LESSER; or,
in the precise words of a modern writer, "the grand and petit manege:
the former, or management of the great horse, intended purely for the
purposes of parade and shew; the latter, confined solely to the _utile_
of military tactics. The grand manege consists in teaching a horse,
already perfectly broke in the common way, certain artificial motions,
the chief of which are called the _terra a terra_, _demi-volt_,
_corvet_, _capriole_, _croupade_, _balotade_, and the step and the leap;
which last is a motion compounded of three airs; namely, the _terra a
terra_, _corvet_, and the _leap_, by which the motion is finished. When
a horse is perfect in all these, he is styled a full dressed, or maneged
horse.
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