i6 RIDING, DRIVING AND KINDRED SPORTS 



never be jobbed. In steadying or controlling 

 him, use just so much force as is required and 

 no more. Directly a horse gives, drop your 

 hand and ease the pressure on his mouth. 

 Coercion should be from the pressure of the 

 legs. It is astonishing how sensitive a horse is 

 to the communication of one's feelings in this 

 way. The pressure of the rider's legs gives to 

 a horse confidence and courao-e, and if it is 

 applied at the right moment is most effectual. 

 Thus I should never hit or spur a horse till I 

 had tried squeezing him with my legs. Num- 

 bers of half- wild Waziri and other Indian 

 country-bred horses and ponies, have passed 

 through my hands. Active, wiry, nervous 

 horses, they are easy to spoil by violence, 

 while great things can be done with them by 

 kindness and firmness. However, I am con- 

 sidering rather the rider than the horse at 

 present. An excellent exercise In the use of the 

 bridle and the leg Is to make a horse walk out. 

 Very few horses are good walkers, just because 

 they have never been taught. Yet if much 

 hackino- has to be done nothino- is more com- 

 fortable than a good walker. A kick with the 

 unarmed heel and an even pressure of the legs 

 should make a horse walk up to his bit. He 

 will, however, try to breaR Into a jog. Then 

 is the time very quietly but firmly to pull him 



