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on to the next fence as soon as possible, and have his 

 ten yards' run at it as before, and so on over succeeding 

 fences until the colt seems to have had enough of it. 



Teaching young horses to jump should generally be 

 left to experienced, patient, good-tempered, and deter- 

 mined horsemen, and then there need be no fear of 

 their turning out indifferent performers, if properly 

 formed. Jumping, however, is such a bugbear to the 

 generality of hunting men in these days that they 

 would as soon entrust themselves to a horse's tender 

 mercies that had never been jumped, as to the car of an 

 experimentalising balloon; therefore, jumping should 

 certainly be included in the hunters education and 

 breaking, or he cannot be considered to meet the pre- 

 sent demands of the public. 



CONDITION. 



Nothing tends more to the comfort, health, and con- 

 sequently condition of the hunter than a good airy, 

 and more especially, a thoroughly dry stable. Whether 

 it consist of boxes or stalls matters little, so long as horses 

 have regular exercise ; but no horse should be allowed 

 to stand in a stall all through the day and night. If 

 he does so, he will lose his action and contract inflam- 

 mation of the feet. Therefore, where horses are 

 suffered to remain in the stable for a day or two to- 

 gether, they should be stabled in boxes or other loose 

 places where they can move about and prevent the 

 circulation from becoming dormant in their extremities^ 

 as well as in any other part of their bodies. 



