'To Amaze the People with Pleasure and Delight' by Elaine Walker

'To Amaze the People with Pleasure and Delight' by Elaine WalkerWilliam Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastles passions included women, music, writing, theatre and, perhaps above all, the finest horses. He was a widely acknowledged expert in the art of the riding horse, and his works laid the foundation for classical dressage. Mastery in horsemanship was the mark of a graceful and accomplished gentleman in the European nobility of the seventeenth century. In the first comprehensive study of Newcastles two