o RIDING, DRIVING AND KINDRED SPORTS 



It Is always worth while, if you get a 

 queer one, to conclude that bad breaking Is 

 at the bottom of his vice. In this case a 

 horse should be put to school again and be 

 trained exactly as though he was a colt just 

 up from grass. I do not say it Is a plan 

 that will always succeed, and there is a vast 

 difference between tackling a foolish colt, weak 

 and timid, to a bold horse with three or four 

 seasons' condition In him, and the recollec- 

 tion of the men he has got the better of. 

 Some horses are like the Bourbons — they will 

 learn nothing and they forget nothing. But It 

 may answer, and very often does, especially 

 with the buck-jumper, and sometimes, but more 

 rarely, with the hard -puller. With a horse 

 given to buck-jumping great care should be 

 taken In girthing not to pull him up too tight. 

 When hacking to the meet, and I prefer to do 

 this with horses with which one Is likely to 

 have a difference of opinion, for quarrels be- 

 tween horse and man as between husband and 

 wife should be settled in private, if the horse 

 has a breastplate on, an article of horse-furni- 

 ture I am old-fashioned enough to like, the 

 girths can be left comparatively loose, and 

 then by putting the leg forward and lifting the 

 flaps the rider can tighten them up at will. 

 The advantage of this Is that while many 



