THE COLONIAL HORSE 



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ditch with a bank having two rails on the top 3 ft. 8 in., and 

 then another flight of rails brushed with broom, making a 

 double ; the next jump is a wide ditch, with a bank about 3 ft. 8 in. 

 high, followed by a sod bank about 3 ft. 6 in., with a wide ditch 

 on the take-off side, and then a brushed hurdle 3 ft. 6 in. in 

 height ; to this succeeds a double, of which the first fence is 

 made of a four-foot brushed hurdle, and is followed by a flight 

 of hurdles. The next is a very awkward place, consisting of a 

 bank topped with furze, having a two-railed fence sloping up 



. Crash in the next stride. 



the bank from a ditch, rising six inches to a foot above the 

 bank, and brushed with furze ; the ditch on the take-off side is 

 very wide ; and finally a 3 ft. 9 in. bank, very broad, with a wide 

 ditch beyond it. 



Mr. Saunders, one of the members of the New Zealand 

 < House of Commons,' from whose admirable book, ' Our 

 Horses,' I am indebted for much of my information, relates a 

 story of the manner in which he satisfied his curiosity as to the 

 way in which a particularly docile, useful, all-round animal, 

 named Grace Darling, which he hired from the Maories, was 



