i.] FIT FOR COMMON KIDITO. 





Without the same excuse for It, the same may be said Common 



riders turn 



of all ladies and civilians who ride with one hand only, on th6 



wrong rein, 



and of almost all who ride with two hands. For, -strange 

 to say, in turning, both hands are generally passed to the 

 right or left, and I have known many of what may be 

 called the most perfect sir sight-far ward hands ; that is, 

 men ^vho on the turf would hold the most difficult three- 

 year-old to the steady stroke of the two-mile course, and 

 place him as a winner to half-a-length who in the hunting- 

 field would ride the hottest, or the most phlegmatic made 

 hunter, with equal skill, through all difficulties of ground, 

 and over every species of fence, with admirable precision 

 and equality of hand or who on the exercise ground would 

 place his broken charger on his haunches, and make him 

 walk four miles an hour, canter six and a half, trot eight 

 and a half, and gallop eleven, without being out in either 

 pace a second of time, but who marred all by the besetting 

 sin of side -feeling of turning the horse on the wrong rein. 

 The consequence is, that they can ride nothing but what 

 has been trained to answer "the wrong indications. 



