io8 BREAKING AND TRAINING 



the animal bolting, or some such accident. Then 

 you require a standing martingale, a dummy pad and 

 crupper, and a flat (slightly curved) unjointed 

 leather covered snaffle, having a leather strap 

 coming from the covering in such a way as to buckle 

 beneath the lower jaw. After having fitted your 

 colt in this tackle, and given him a few lessons in 

 such matters as circhng, turning, backing, etc., 

 proceed to put him to the jump, and if he refuses to 

 take it after a reasonable trial, he should be led over 

 it with the crupper rein. 



As already stated, the writer prefers that the horse 

 should jump from the outset with saddle and rider, 

 whenever this is possible. Whatever plan you 

 adopt, patient, regular and steady daily practice 

 is, in this case, as in others, essential to success. 

 The colt must, of course, be taught to jump 

 at the walk, trot, canter, and the gallop. Most 

 important of all, he must learn to mark his time 

 or faces so that he will not take off his fences either 

 " too close " or " too near," a painfully common 

 cause of defective jumping. 



This is part of the training to which it is impossible 

 to pay too much attention. 



