INTRODUCTION. THE PRINCIPAL OBJECT of this little work is to make the English sportsman acquainted with the rudiments of M. Bauchers admirable system of Suppling the Horse. It is now about thirty-five years since M. Baucher first laid his theory of equitation before the French public. Its merits have been long and keenly discussed upon the Continent, bit I cannot find that it has ever attracted any serious notice in England. An English pamphlet, containing an outline of its principles as adapted to the training of cavalry horses, was indeed published by the late lamented Captain Nalan in 1853 but it was not calculated to attract, and certainly did not receive, much attention from civilian horse- men. I have not thought it advisable to translate any part of M. Bauchers works. Like many men of original genius, he was far more successful in discovering truth than in expIaining it...