Word: horsemanship
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...oldest branch of the equestrian disciplines, dressage is based on ancient Greek horsemanship as well as Renaissance pageants and training of warhorses...
...sent to train in horsemanship with Lao Jin, a veteran herder. Lao Jin is tough and tender, instantly devoted to the girl's well-being. Xiu Xiu, the sent-down girl, is still stuck-up; but she cannot ignore Lao Jin's kindness. When she complains about not being able to wash, he builds her a small pool. "Your eyes will rot if you peek!" she tells him as she bathes. Yet the little flirt wants him to look. She needs to know she fascinates...
...Cummings met two years ago at the Willow Run Polo school, a magnet for the Argentine players, many of whom are boarded on farms owned by the people they call their patrones. Cummings was learning the game. Villegas was a handsome professional who inspired the students with his horsemanship. "They idolized him," says Willow Run owner Jean-Marie Turon. "I think she fell in love with him then...
Combining studies with horsemanship was the idea of Sherman Thacher, a Yale law graduate who accompanied his ailing brother West and started the school in 1889. "There's something about the outside of a horse," he maintained, "that's good for the inside of a boy." Though it began as a school for boys who carried six-guns, read Kipling and mostly went on to Yale, Thacher has evolved into a modern, co-ed institution whose students enroll at colleges all over the country. Of this year's 62 seniors, 28 are headed for Ivy League schools...
...Horsemanship alone won't get you into Harvard, of course. To do that, the school offers a 7-to-1 student-teacher ratio and a high-powered academic program that includes four years of English, three of mathematics and foreign language, and two of science, history and fine arts. "We teach people how to think critically," says Marvin Shagam, a popular instructor who studied at Oxford and is trained in judo. "We don't coach for the SATs." The fees for all this are steep: tuition next year will be $16,000, although 44 of the school's 227 students...