THE SCHOOLING OF HUNTERS 



couple or three inches every week, but it is no 

 use to increase the jumps in a haphazard manner, 

 lowering them one day and making them higher 

 the next, as such a system is only conducive 

 towards slovenliness in jumping, and a scholar 

 that once acquires the habit of rapping and 

 knocking down the jumps, becomes so used to 

 it, that it will ever afterwards continue to be a 

 slovenly jumper. 



Some trainers begin the preliminary jumping 

 lessons on a longeing rein, but it is a better 

 practice to do so with saddle and rider, as a 

 horse schooled in the manner first named is 

 inclined to acquire liberty of action, which when 

 discarded for that of restraint, destroys the 

 value of the earlier lessons. The author is 

 aware that differences of opinion exist in 

 relation to this matter; nevertheless he believes 

 that the less mechanical aids are used in the 

 breaking and training of hunters, the better the 

 ultimate results. 



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