LONG REIN DRIVING. 



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It is so very much easier to control a horse in an 

 enclosed space than in the open, that I would re- 

 commend any one who trains many young animals and 

 has not a riding school, to rail off in the corner of a 

 field a rectangular space about thirty-six yards by 

 twelve yards, in which to teach them to turn, stop, and 



Fig. 52. — Standing Martingale on nose-band. 



canter in small circles ; but the enclosing fences must 

 be unjumpable and solid. 



The programme for the first week may be a lesson 

 in the riding school for half an hour, and riding about 

 the roads at a walk for an hour. 



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