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HOW TO PUT THE COLT AT HIS FENCES. 



The rider must be careful to give the colt abun- 

 dance of time at his fences, and should encourage 

 him to negotiate them without exciting him. If, as 

 very frequently occurs, a cluster of riders are drawn 

 up in the corner of a field waiting until an awkward 

 gate is opened, or waiting their turn to jump through 

 a narrow gap in a fence, the rider should pull the colt 

 up a hundred yards away and walk him quietly for- 

 ward. No good purpose is served by galloping reck- 

 lessly up amongst the other riders and then having to 

 wait until a chance arrives of jumping over, besides 

 some horses might refuse and this would be a bad 

 example for the colt. The rider must studiously 

 avoid getting mixed up in a crush because the colt 

 may kick out and injure the horse of another rider, 

 while, on the other hand, some vicious thoroughbred 

 " weed " may " shake hands " with the colt with that 

 ready dexterity and un^pleasant force peculiar to the 

 temper and heels of the breed. 



HOW TO MANAGE A DOUBLE FENCE. 



When an unusually awkward fence intervenes — a 

 double fence with a ditch, or ditches, for instance — 

 the rider should teach him to accomplish it at a walk 

 so that he can plant his feet firmly on the ground 

 between the fences in order to collect himself for his 

 second spring. If the rider push him fast and furi- 

 ously at a fence of this nature he may attempt to 

 jump it at a single stride, and the chances are that 



