BUCKJUMPING SADDLE. 



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difficulty in getting out of the saddle in the event of the 

 horse falling with me. In Figs. 103 and 104, I have taken 

 off the leather covering of the leaping heads (or horns), 

 so as to show their action more clearly. 



After the horse has been mounted, the rider, in order to 



Fig. 105. A rein ahd'whip in each hand. 



confirm the habit of obedience, may walk and trot the 

 animal on the circle round which he had been previously 

 worked, using only the reins and clicking with his tongue 

 as aids. If the horse be sluggish, the breaker or man on 

 foot may stimulate him to go on by " showing " the lunging 

 whip, or by lightly touching him with it below the hocks. 

 If the breaker be single-handed and has to ride the horse, 



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