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should not be more than twenty minutes, 

 morning and afternoon. 



A mouthing snaffle should be used to begin 

 with, and for the first six days he should 

 be longed on the right rein at a walk and 

 trot, say, twenty minutes, and on the left 

 rein ten minutes, being occasionally allowed 

 to come up to the trainer for rest. The 

 trainer should stretch out his horse's fore- 

 legs when he comes up, and then make 

 much of him and give him a piece of sliced 

 carrot or something else that the horse likes. 



The horse should be made to bend and 

 look in the direction he takes, and the 

 outer rein should be the higher in order to 

 support him. 



In longeing, two lessons should generally 

 be given on the right to one on the left, as 

 the near fore is the " mother leg," and the 

 horse is naturally more supple on the left 

 side. 



In the second week the foregoing lessons 

 should be repeated, and the canter be com- 

 menced, but care should be taken not to 

 overdo it. The trainer should see that the 

 horse canters true on each rein. He should 

 also rein back a few paces at a time, but 

 without putting too much weight on the 



