74 ILLUSTRATED HORSE-BREAKING. 



the mouth-piece is on the corners of the mouth. 

 Hence, the worse the rider, the more need he has 

 of using a standing martingale with a horse that 

 requires one. 



That good horseman, Mr. Blew of The Field, 

 remarks to me that he has seen one or two falls 

 result from the use of the standing martingale, in 

 cases of horses, out hunting, getting their fore-feet 

 into a deep ''gripe," and, then, being prevented by 

 this gear, from throwing up the head, and, thus, 

 relieving the fore-hand. He, consequently, advises 

 that it should be employed, only, in breaking. 

 Those fine steeplechase riders, Colonel Hickman of 

 the 2 1 St Hussars and Colonel Wardrop of the 

 1 2th Lancers, as well as many other good 'cross- 

 country performers, consider, with me, that its 

 addition renders horses requiring such restraint, 

 safer over fences than they would be without it. 

 Although the solution of this debatable question 

 may be left to each man's own individual feeling on 

 the matter, there can be no doubt as to its para- 



