REINING BACK. 



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exercise. A horse which has to carry a woman should 

 have previously been taught to rein back, chiefly by 

 word of command and with only slight indications of 

 the reins, because in the rein back a lady is greatly 



Fig. 104. Position of legs in jumping. 



handicapped by her want of control over the animal's 

 hind quarters. In this movement we should above all 

 things avoid leaning back and putting an equal feeling 

 on both reins, for that would be the very thing to 

 prompt him to rear. It is evident that as a horse has 



