92 HINTS ON HORSEMANSHIP. 



if force is used, sulky. These are important steps, as prac- 

 tices of obedience as well as of intelligence. 



There cannot be a better time than when the colt is in his 

 longing lessons, to teach him to leap. The bar itself should 

 be only six feet long. The posts which support it should be 

 four feet six inches high. The side rails attached to them, 

 thirty feet in length, with a post in the centre at fifteen feet 

 from either end, and they should slope down to three feet. 

 They should rest on the tops of the posts, and be flush with 

 them and perfectly smooth, so that the longe-cord may pass 

 freely along, and over them without catching. The pace 

 should be invariably a walk, as far as the middle post, thence 

 a slow trot. The horse must not be suffered to rush, or he 

 will refuse, or at least pull up and jump standing. The reins 

 of the snaffle should be taken over the head and passed 

 through the ring, on the left side of the snaffle, and the 

 longe-cord buckled to them. Hold the rein close to where 

 it passes through the ring. It will clasp the horse's lower 



