Phillis James Biography

Password: Password again: by pressing the “Register” button, I confirm my legal capacity, the consent to obtaining information from the IP “Vaganov P. His father, Thomas Fillis, was a well -known rich lawyer, whose old office was very popular in England. Like all the British, Thomas Phillis was obsessed with the passion for horses and often visited jumps. In the year, the father is dying, and the widow-mother remains with seven young children, and, as it turned out, the condition is almost everything lost in the last years of his father’s life, fascinated by playing on jumps.

James Fillis said that, if he hadn’t had a collapse, he would not have to ride on horseback, since the notary office of Fillis passed many generations continuously to his eldest son. Seven -year -old James gets to his father’s friend, the rich owner of the horses, who had a jump stable, where he spends two years; He meets like an observation boy, with the carriage of a horse and, being daily among the grooms, zhokeev and stable boys, is accustomed to sit in the saddle on purebred one and a half.

According to her father’s legacy, Little James’s love of a horse developed into passion, and after the death of his benefactor, who was ruined on horses, James enters the year to the wealthy ultrasound Grines, who operated in all horse markets in Europe. There were no railways then, and horses, unloading from ships in Hamburg, were sent by marching order. During the seven -year stay at Grines, Little Phillis stayed on a horse in almost all the main cities of Europe.

Multiplying transitions on a purebred young cow, a young James with a horse, introduced him to all kinds of rocks, their characters, made it possible to practically study all the ways of subordinating the will of the horseman of the wayward animal. The circumstances of life were so that it was impossible to refuse to sit on a rebellious animal, especially since the treatment of the boys was very unceremonious.

Their life was valued in a penny. As Fillis himself told, the relatives of the boy killed by a horse, having received several sterling, considered themselves completely satisfied, recognizing such an order quite normal. Frusting by nature, a clever, lean young man, James sat down with special pleasure on a stubborn horse, from which others, as they say, were reopened.

Submission to his will to the unbridled manner of the animal delivered a bold young man a higher pleasure. Most often, Phillis had to be in Vienna, where at the end of the forties he met with the famous boshe rider, an idol of the connoisseurs of the time of that time. When visiting Madrid, Milan, Paris and Berlin, Fillis met many arena runks working horses for higher education, but what he saw at Bosha struck Phillis to the highest degree.

In a special chapter of his essay, he comprehensively considers some provisions of the Bosch system. Sixteen -year -old Phillis comes to the then -famous coach Askford, whose stable was in the vicinity of the New Markete - the center of the rope world. Here he participates in races at the hippodrome. Each context of England has hunting horses, which it shows for sale only after the horse passes, so to speak, a training course.

To do this, the horses are sent under the jockeys for parfors, but they jump in the tail of the participant of the hunting group until the horse does not jump well. In the subsequent hunts, the asses gradually move closer to the head hunters, and when the horse demonstrates outstanding successes, offer it for sale and, of course, sell it for a lot of money.

Thus, in this area of ​​work of the horse, Phillis was a wide field for studying in practice all ways to control the horse. Rotating among horses among horses, Phillis, along with leaps, got acquainted with the system of exit of the famous Bosha. In the year in Bern, the secretary of the French embassy, ​​Count de Simeon, a passionate athlete, gave Phillis at full disposal of his horse of Anglo-German origin to exit to a higher school.

This was the first experience. Having moved to the Gavr, Phillis rented a manger, but, as a horse lover, alien to all kinds of commercial reasons, he was not able to conduct business and was forced to move to Paris, where he entered the circus and began to leave horses for higher education, as well as train at large. During his stay in the Circus, Phillis finally, so to speak, developed a horse outlet system and presented the crown of higher schools on purebred grains and Marcire.

In the year, Phillis visited Berlin and Vienna, where his appearance on Germinal, Marcire and Deerro was the complete triumph of his system. The enthusiasm of serious fans of verbal driving, according to the recall of foreign sports magazines, were expressed by the thunder of applause and the offering of all kinds of gifts and addresses. The attention of the Austrian imperial couple was repeatedly expressed in personal approvals by James Fillis.

Emperor Franz Joseph gave him the best stallion of his factory - gray Maestoso. In Russia, James Fillis first appeared in S.An excellent working body of purebred, the correctness, clarity, beauty and energy of their movements were striking. All four horses, as they say, without a bitch and without a bitch in the legs and are saved in the full sense of the word. Soon, James Fillis was entrusted to test his system to work one change of horses of the imperial court stable, which gave brilliant results, for which James Fillis was awarded the Order of St.

Stanislav III degree. Since the year, Phillis has been in the officer cavalry school, where under his leadership and his system they have been working: officers of the permanent composition of the school, leaving young horses for the Higher School of High Riding; Officers of the senior year of alternating composition of the school, leaving three -year mares of state plants; Senior counters on the repair of three and a half years of horses of the school, leaving them right on the mouthpiece.

The fact that his system gives brilliant results, I had to make sure in May the year when Phillis gave me to try his purebred karakovo Sumerro. This is a real line of gelding, if you go on it, as our ordinary ones ride, - resting on an occasion and dissolving Schengel; Poerro was then walking a wide trot with a rather strong emphasis on reason. From the further strengthening of Schenkel, he picked up the ass, the silk occasion, obedience to his hand full.

This is a horse, not trained for high school, as is usually in the circus, but perfectly balanced by the exit, and therefore in an excellent occasion, with widely developed gait, Smirna, turning and submissive to the rider in the full sense of the word, and at the same time perfectly saved. Despite his 66 years, Phillis daily works as a high school for his own young horse and travels the horses of his imperial highness of the August General Inspector of Cavalry.

You need to be a personal witness to evaluate Phillis as a wonderful driving teacher. How much energy and what art he shows in the moments of resistance of the horse the will of the rider, what determination his eyes burn when the horse shows the protest, and how hesitatively affectionate he is with the same horse every time after the demand well fulfilled. How fast it is in the instructions during the driving lesson, can serve as an example of the following case.

In the Red Selo, the native mare, when the click, overturned under the rider and crushed him so much that he could not sit down on her again. The old Fillis with the ease of the young man, in an instant, found himself in the saddle and an energetic persistent parish with a whip and spurs immediately brought the mare to obedience and complete obedience. The ending of a brief biography of this remarkable master of art of riding, I consider it necessary to mention that James Phillis in daily conversations with us after driving shows the comprehensive readiness of a person educated.

His speech breathes wit, pure logic of sound mind with an adamant will.

His stories draw a person, from the observation of which the slightest detail of the situation, in which his life was a practic-label, was leaking, and are the great talent of the naturalist in him. Starting an independent work life without a penny in his pocket, a seven-year-old orphanage devoted it exclusively to the study of the horse. Having now reached loud fame, having provided the family and five children with completely sufficient material means, James Phillis proved that in his life, as in the principle of horse -drawn, he remains faithful to his motto - “En Avant!

The translation was made with the consent of James Fillis and, at my request, my cousin Alexander Andreevich Voitskhovich, a serious expert on horse and riding. In the presence of Phillis, the translation was read by Major General Brusilov and Lieutenant Colonel Khimts and approved by the head of the St. Petersburg Officer Cavalry School General Lieutenant Avsharov.

As a friend and admirer of the talent of my teacher James Fillis and wanting to familiarize with his views, the most like a love of love for horse and riding is possible with his views, I decided to edit and publish a real book, believing this contribution to the benefit of a glorious Russian cavalry. Lieutenant Colonel Prince Bagration