From the Forward by William Steinkraus:
“It is ironic that so many of the people who have never studied the
literature of riding simply ‘can’t spare the time’ to do so. Yet, nothing
is more wasteful than the tedious search for a solution to a problem
which others have long since solved. Thus, all of us who aspire, in
our practice of riding, to something more than an interminable
repetition of the same errors of technique or of understanding will find
ourselves indebted to Colonel d’Endrody, who has made available to
us in this volume the most precious gift a rider can pass on to his
colleagues – his own experience and his understanding of it. His
experience has been vast; his has probed it with an exceptionally
keen analytical mind for the basic logical and consistent principles
that are the only short cuts, and he has set forth these insights in an
integrated, systematic form with the most painstaking thoroughness.”
A reissue in paperback of an important out-of-print work of
equestrian scholarship that would otherwise be inaccessible to
the dedicated enthusiast.