45 RIDING FOR LADIES, 



be consigned to Tattersall's or "The Lane," to be sold 

 " absolutely without reserve." 



Worse still than the runaway professional bolter is the 

 panic-stricken flight of a suddenly scared horse, in which 

 abject terror reigns supreme, launching him at the top of his 

 speed in full flight from some imaginary foe. Nature has 

 taught him to seek safety in flight, and the frightened animal, 

 with desperate and exhausting energy, will gallop till he drops. 

 Professor Galvayne's system claims to be effective with run- 

 away and nervous bolters. At Ayr that distinguished horse- 

 tamer cured, in the space of one hour, an inveterate performer 

 in that objectionable line, and a pair he now drives were, 

 at one time, given to like malpractices. 



Do not urge your horse suddenly from a canter into a full 

 gallop ; let him settle down to his pace gradually— steady 

 him. Being jumped off, like a racehorse with a flying start 

 at the fall of the flag, is very apt to make a hot, high- 

 couraged horse run away or attempt to do so. Some horses, 

 however, allow great liberties to be taken with them, and 

 others none. All depends on temperament, and whether 

 the nervous, fibrous, sanguine, or lymphatic element prepon- 

 derates. And here let me remark that the fibrous tempera- 

 ment is the one to struggle and endure, to last the longest, 

 and to give the maximum of ease, comfort, and satisfaction 

 to owner and rider. 



Leaping. 



*' Throw the broad ditch behind you ; o'er the hedge 

 High bound, resistless j nor the deep morass refuse." 



Thompson. 



Though the '' pleasures of the chase " are purposely ex- 

 cluded from this volume, the horsewoman's preliminary 



