328 LET PRAISE BE GIVEN WHERE PRAISE IS DUE. 



ciple acted upon, and the only one that can be 

 attended with success. 



Highly trained as these horses are, and much as 

 we must admire their docility and gracefulness of 

 action, it is but justice to the riders to observe that 

 the best sportsman or jockey that ever crossed a 

 country or rode over Newmarket Heath could no 

 more work one of these horses properly than he could 

 put together or arrange the works of a chronometer : 

 he could no more make the animal keep time than he 

 could the watch : the hands of sportsmen, good as 

 they may be, are not fine enough to handle these 

 living pieces of machinery: the slightest touch of 

 the finger or heel would put these horses in confusion, 

 and nothing but years of practice in this peculiar 

 mode of horsemanship can procure that fineness of 

 touch indispensable with a highly -trained horse. 

 We see the animal obey r without detecting what pro- 

 duces the numerous changes in his performance. 

 This must at once convince us of the precision, correct- 

 ness, and delicacy of the hand and heel that direct 

 his every motion. 



If the public wish to see what fine hands will do 

 with a horse, there is a lady who rides nightly in the 

 circle at Astley's, or rather at Batty's, who will show 

 it them. The perfectly quiet and ladylike manner in 

 which she handles her horse, and the perfect training 

 and graceful action of the animal, afford a treat to 

 the admirers of horsewoman ship : that it may be 

 long before they may see again. Many of my fair 

 countrywomen have, I dare say, longed for this horse : 

 I dare say many more will if they go and see him ; 

 but as most probably he would not be parted with, 

 they may take this as a consolation, he would not be 



