130 INSTRUCTIONS TO RIDING BOYS. 



with their horses on the road. lie should talk 

 to them on the subject of such orders as he is 

 aware he shall now and then have to give them, 

 and point out to them the causes and effects 

 of such orders, especially as to how they are 

 to ride some particular horses; and further, he 

 should explain the consequences that may result 

 from their deviating from the orders given them. 

 He should occasionally, when talking to those 

 boys in whom he will often have to place such 

 confidence, mention the very essential parts that 

 a good riding boy should be well acquainted 

 with; one of the first of those is, that of his 

 being a good judge of pace, so as to be able to 

 economize the powers of the horse agreeably 

 to the state of his condition, with that of the 

 state and length of the ground over which he 

 may have to ride different horses, so as not to 

 over-mark any of them, but rather to take care 

 to have a little left in them to finish or come 

 home with. It is the severity of the pace that 

 horses go in long lengths that is the cause of 

 their being over-marked, perhaps at a time when 

 they may be a little too fat in their insides, from 

 their having been kept too short of work. Now, 

 it is on such occasions as the above, that the 



