226 ON THE PACES, AND 



I have oblerved, that the Irifh hunters are 

 the higheit leapers in the world, from their 

 being early trained thereto* Would it not be 

 advantageous, to bring all our colts of fize 

 and figure to the bar? Good ftanding-leapers, 

 are, I think, generally fcarce; and fome, which 

 are good in that refpect., will hefitate and bog- 

 gle at their flying leaps. Perhaps an early 

 attention might remedy thofe defects. 



CHAP. V. 



ON THE PACES, AND THE EQUESTRIAN 

 ART, OR MODERN METHOD OF RIDING 

 ON HORSEBACK, AS PRACTISED BY 

 BOTH SEXES. 



RESUME the defcription of the natural 

 ■*■ paces, walk, trot, canter, and gallop, com- 

 mon to all Horfes; but of which, the trot is 

 the bed pace of the northern, the gallop of 

 the fouthern horfe; and this diflinclion arifes 

 from their different conformation. 



In progreflion, the feet fhould be put for- 

 ward in an even and rectilinear direction, and the 

 farther the fore-legs are advanced, the greater 

 is the profpecl: of fpeed, the hinder-quarters, 

 being thrown forward, in due proportion. 



The 



