72 HORSE-MASTERSHIP 



the horse's education are apt to make him 

 fly them, which is fatal. Any horse which 

 can jump banks can be taught to fly later, 

 but the converse by no means holds good. 



After you are satisfied that with a man up 

 the horse can be taught nothing further, 

 send him out with hounds, but insist on the 

 man riding him quietly. On no account let 

 him be shoved along for several weeks, or 

 you will almost to a certainty make him pull. 



Now just a few lines on show^ -jumpers, 

 which I am even less qualified to write about 

 than hunters. 



The class of jumper (as far as I can learn 

 from the foreigners, who know much more 

 about it than we do) that scores in the show 

 ring is an animal with a certain natural 

 balance and carriage during the act of jump- 

 ing. Of course he must be a good performer 

 in the sense of getting over the obstacles 

 correctly and safely, but it is his carriage 

 which scores from other equally good jumpers 

 in the hunter sense. A blood horse seldom or 

 never has this carriage, which is another argu- 

 ment to my prejudiced mind showing what 

 a poor game show-jumping is. It is impos- 

 sible, I believe, to drill this particular carriage 

 into a horse, but all good show-jumpers over 

 the class of fences they meet in Olympia are 

 constantly put over the obstacles the show- 

 jumper is required to negotiate. (These 



