BUCK-JUMPING. 



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BUCK-JUMPING. 



Under this heading I shall include the minor vices of 

 plunging and "pig-jumping." Bucking is all but 

 unknown among English and Eastern horses, but 



Fig. 146. Riding mountain zebra. 



is seen to its highest perfection among Australian and 

 New Zealand animals, especially those that have been 

 allowed their liberty up to a comparatively late period 

 of life, say, four years old. I have ridden some buck- 

 jumping -Argentine horses which were expert per- 

 formers : many of the wild Russian steppe horses 

 are very bad buck-jumpers. Some English horses, 



