148 GALLOPING EXERCISE. 



should take care to select those to lead the 

 gallop as have been accustomed to do this sort 

 of thing. Indeed there should always be, at the 

 time the horses are at exercise, an experienced 

 riding boy (in whom the groom has confidence) 

 placed in front of any class of horses, however 

 small. From the repeated orders the groom is in 

 the habit of giving to an intelligent boy who leads 

 the gallop, as to how he is to rate the horse he 

 is on, he will soon be brought to be a tolerable 

 good judge 6f pace, and from custom, in the rid- 

 ing of different horses in their exercise, he will 

 know pretty well at what rate any horse he has 

 before ridden is going; and, according to the 

 orders he may receive from the groom, he urges 

 the horse on in the concluding of the gallop to as 

 near the top of the horse's pace as he (the boy) 

 may have been required to do, without drawing 

 the horse quite out, in other words, extending 

 him to the extent of his stride. 



Another circumstance to be attended to is, 

 that, among a number of horses in training, 

 there are occasionally some much more difficult 

 to ride than others. Such horses have sagacity 

 enougli to discover very quickly the sort of riders 



