THE CANTER. 



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and stern censure. A sympathy between horse and rider is 

 soon estabHshed, and such freemasonry is delightful. - 



Never canter on the high road, and see that your 

 groom does not indulge himself by so doing. On elastic 

 springy turf the pace, which in reality is a series of short 

 bounds, if not continued too long at a time, does no great 





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FREE BUT NOT EASY. 



harm, but one mile on a hard, unyielding surface causes more 

 wear-and-tear of joints, shoulders, and frame generally, than 

 a long day's work of alternating walk and trot which, on the 

 Queen's highway, are the proper paces*. There is no ob- 

 jection to a canter when a bit of turf is found on the road- 

 side ; and the little drains cut to lead the water off the turn- 

 pike into the ditch serve to make young horses handy with 

 their legs. 



