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lessly that a start would throw you from your 

 place ! Never leave your horse to himself a 

 second ! Sit as well as you can, look between 

 your horse's ears and listen ! Always use some 

 discretion in choosing your place to stop. Do 

 not try to stop when turning a corner, even to 

 avoid a danger, but rather change your direc- 

 tion. In the ring, never stop on the track, un- 

 less in obedience to your master's order, but 

 turn out into the centre, but when you have 

 once told your horse to stop, make him do it, 

 for his sake, as well as for your own, if you have 

 to spend an hour in the effort. And it will be 

 an hour well spent, so that you need not lose 

 patience, and if you do lose it, do not allow 

 your horse to perceive it. 



"To stop, you should press your leg and your 

 whip against your horse's sides ; lift your hands 

 a very little, and turn them in toward your body, 

 lean back and draw yourself up. There are six 

 things to do : two to your horse, one on each 

 side of him, two with your hands and two with 

 your body, and you must do them almost simul- 

 taneously. Unless you do the first two, your 

 horse will surely take a forward step or two 



