160 GALLOPING EXERCISE. 



their haunches under them. Should a person, 

 under such circumstances, have a doubt as to the 

 action of any horse, he had better, if a pretty 

 good horseman, ride the horse himself; and, to 

 be certain of drawing out the horse he rides, he 

 should, if necessary, have another to go head and 

 girth with him in finishing the gallop, for what- 

 ever length of rally it may be ; and as the horse 

 alluded to is pressed on to the top of his pace, he 

 naturally, although fairly, pulls pretty strong at 

 the rider, which occasions him to sit well down in 

 his saddle, keeping good hold of its flaps with his 

 knees, as well as a tolerably good hold of his 

 stirrups with his feet, which, to give him power 

 in holding the horse with his hands, he places 

 rather more forward than is usual. The horse 

 now being drawn out to nearly the top of his 

 pace, it is^just at this time the rider should, for a 

 few strides, lean a little over to either side, and, 

 by looking down on the ground, see how near the 

 horse he is riding will bring his hind feet up or close 

 to the outside of his fore ones. The rider is not 

 to be astonished, if, in riding a number of horses 

 in this way, he should occasionally find a horse 

 bringing his hind feet a trifle beyond his fore 

 ones. If the horse can do this sort of thing to the 

 extent above-mentioned, he will be found to be a 



