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Pat: I just ordered it through ABE; maybe this old dog can still learn a thing or two! Thanks for bringing its availability to my attention. Regards, John Ruf Culpeper, Virginia "God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses." Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham 1852...

Hello Frank: That makes perfect sense considering the Russian prediliction to save everything just in case they need it down the line. Hope to see you at a drill soon! Regards, John Ruf Culpeper, Virginia "God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses." Robert Bont...

Hello Jack: I believe that the fitting adjustments refered to in "Animal Management" and "The Handbook for Saddle and Harness Makers" are more a reflection to the advanced level of horsemastership in the British service than an indication of any flaw in the 1902 or 1912 UP. In th...

Ron: Well, I finished Percival Lowe's memoirs, and I am still in awe of what was routinely accomplished by both horse and rider, under such trying conditions. Next time I'm driving at a three day event, and start to feel sorry for myself, I will just think back on Lowe's experiences, and suck it up....

I took some good advice and found myself a copy of Percival Lowe's "Five Years a Dragoon. It has been engrossing to read, especially the references to the horse care parcticed in the west by the U.S. Dragoons. One quote which caught my particular attension, as a Grimsley user, was "althoug...