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that he is to get away in a gallop, which he does, if he 

 is a kind, free goer, without giving the boy the trouble 

 of pressing his heels against his sides. 



When the horse is settled in his stride, the manner 

 of his pulling and going on with the pace will very 

 much regulate an experienced riding boy as to the po- 

 sition he will keep his body in. With a horse that is 

 not easily flurried, it becomes a matter of choice with 

 the boy as to the position he will take; but if it be a 

 light, flighty, irritable hoise that the boy is riding, 

 placing his hands w^ell down, he cannot be too still nor 

 too long in the first position he takes, nor can he, when 

 he has occasion to alter it perhaps to a more upright 

 one, be too quiet or too careful in so doing. For if a 

 flighty horse feels any sudden alteration or movement 

 of his rider, he either alters his stride, changes his legs, 

 or becomes flurried, and then he begins pulling more 

 determinedly. This must, if possible, be avoided, other- 

 wise a flighty horse soon loses his temper, and is then 

 of no use as a race-horse. 



The horse that requires but little pulling or hustling 

 in his exercise is the free, kind goer. He generally 

 keeps his place both in his gallop and sweat. It is in 

 his race that he requires pulling or hustling, which is 

 sometimes occasioned by his being challenged by any 

 horse in the company he may be running in, or when 

 the horse we are describing has arrived at that latter part 

 of the race which is the length of rally in which he 

 can live the whole of the way home. The jockey's or- 

 ders (if the horse has not before been called upon) on 



