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grasp of the hand is to be relaxed to be again applied when 

 the fore legs touch the ground, lest they should sink under 

 the weight of the bodj. 



We should be content with trying only a few leaps at a 

 time, never attempting such as are too great for the ani- 

 mal's powers. Horses are sometimes so much alarmed in 

 this wnj, as to refuse thereafter to perform leaps only half 

 the height of those to which they have been previously 

 accustomed. 



The reader has now been presented with a detailed ac- 

 count of the best manner of training horses for the saddle, 

 and they will be found satisfactory in proportion as he 

 applies them with spirit, adopting, of course, such altera- 

 tions as will be suggested by circumstances. Of the prelim- 

 inary exercises, not one is unnecessary or unprofitable. 

 He who would have a thoroughly good saddle-horse should 

 be contented to follow M. Baucher's directions, until he is 

 able to prove that they are erroneous. 



It is recommended that each lesson be of a half hour's 

 duration, that the horse have two lessons per day, and 

 that the training be continued for sixty days. 



