CHAPTER XIX. 



ON THE PULL AND HUSTLE. 



The pull and hustle is better known to boys in 

 racing stables who are perfect in their business than I 

 shall probably be able to describe it; but as it is a sort 

 of thing (from the manner in which horses are taught 

 and trained) that answers the purposes for which it was 

 intended, and as it requires to be thoroughly under- 

 stood by all boys, riding gallops and sweats, I will, 

 for the information of such of them as may be learning 

 to ride, attempt to describe how and when this pull 

 and hustle is to be put in practice, and how it is to be 

 varied according to the effect which it is intended 

 to produce on different horses. And to bring this 

 matter more clearly before my readers, I shall again 

 recur to some observations previously made in that 

 part of this treatise which professes to teach a boy the 

 art of riding. 



The method adopted by a good riding boy, head 



