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yourself to regulate the pace; but remember, that the 

 horse must be kept in perfect " equilibrium," and 

 never allowed to lean on hand or leg. 



LEAPING, HOW TO BE PEACTISED. 



The riding-school is a bad place to teach a young 

 horse to leap. The bar, with its posts, is very apt to 

 frighten the animal, and the use of the whip, often 

 administered to make him go up to the bar, gives the 

 horse a thorough aversion to it. 



Take the horses into a field and over a low fence 

 first, or a small ditch, not backward and forward over 

 one and the same thing to disgust them, but over what 

 obstacles are in the way, and then to the stables. 



Few horses refuse, if led on by a steady horse, and 

 in this, as in every other lesson, let the increase be 

 made by degrees. 



Always leap the horse on the snafile, and do not be 

 in a hurry. 



