equitation

As a child in France, Petit was already wire-walking to the beat of a different drummer – also teaching himself equitation, fencing, carpentry, rock-climbing, drama, drawing, and bullfighting.

Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2008

Cameron had actually enjoyed poor Ridgeway's attempts to replicate the exercises undertaken by the athletes of ancient Greece, with the addition of equitation, for Ridgeway loved riding and there was nothing he could not ride.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

Carter said he would get me a five-gaited pony or an equitation horse when I learn to ride well enough.

Terrific Tuesday with Jan Scarbrough:) Molly Daniels 2010

The students attended for two years, and were taught the “exercises and games of cavaliers,” in particular equitation, mounting, jumping, and trick riding.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

The younger men of the expedition were chiefly anxious to procure such horses as had been thoroughly trained, and could go through with ease and temper the manoeuvre of equitation, by which it was designed to render legitimate the movement which they had recourse to.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

But when you reflect on the battalions of fantasy writers whose entire knowledge of equitation derives from the overland movement tables in gaming rulebooks, you can easily see how it came about.

Campbell’s Cream of Fantasy superversive 2006

Some less able horsemen met with various accidents; for though it was a proverb of the time, that nothing was so bold as a blind horse, yet from this mode of equitation, where neither horse nor rider saw the way he was going, some steeds were overthrown, others backed upon dangerous obstacles; and the bones of the cavaliers themselves suffered much more than would have been the case in an ordinary march.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

For too long, corporate America has completely controlled the globalization equitation, costing the average American dearly.

Leo W. Gerard: Toxic Trade 2008

The students attended for two years, and were taught the “exercises and games of cavaliers,” in particular equitation, mounting, jumping, and trick riding.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Here I interposed and said to them: If you two were having an argument about equitation and what was the best way of riding, supposing that I knew the art myself, I should try to bring you to an agreement.

Eryxias 2007