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as a Pelham, for instance, ought not to be employed, but 

 rather a good powerful double hxidX^, the curb of which may 

 be used when galloping, and the pressure of it released for 

 that of the snaffle when just coming up to a fence. 



I have seen horses, many times, refuse through their 

 riders having the horrid practice of throwing up the right 

 arm just at the critical moment of rising : by way, I 

 suppose, of affecting a hard-riding air, or perhaps of obtain- 

 ing some imaginary balance of the body. The habit is a 

 most hateful one, and frequently causes a horse to " rush," in 

 cases where he is too bold to baulk or absolutely to refuse. 

 It is also extremely apt to make him swerve, owing to the 

 fact that the pressure is retained on one side of his mouth 

 only, in place of being preserved evenly upon both. 



I may say in conclusion that that capital sportsman, 

 Captain Horace Hayes, once told me of somebody, who, by 

 a very clever expedient, cured a horse of refusing water- 

 jumping. The animal, it appears, used always to baulk at 

 water, and then, when pressed, jump right into the middle 

 of it with a terrific splash. One day a happy thought struck 

 his owner, and he at once proceeded to put it in practice. 

 An artificial water-jump was by his direction constructed 

 upon his own lands, and at the bottom of it, quite sunk 

 from view by weighting, he placed a quantity of thorny 

 bushes. When the affair was satisfactorily completed, he 

 had the horse led quietly out, got upon his back, and rode 

 him boldly at the obstacle. The animal tried to stop as 

 usual, and ended (as usual also) by jumping slap into the 

 middle ; but on this notable occasion, he scrambled out 



