SUGGESTIONS. 53 



when advertising your school, you should mention the 

 rules which will be observed and carried out to the letter. 

 To run such a place in the proper way it is important 

 that from the start the proper system is kept. The riding 

 masters should be treated like friends of their employer, 

 not like hirelings. No bad feeling among themselves 

 should exist or be tolerated, and such men as cannot 

 agree should be discharged. The teachers should always 

 work together hand in hand for their employer's interest. 

 The foreman of a large riding school should be his em- 

 ployer's right hand man in many cases, and therefore not 

 alone a thorough horseman, but a man of great experi- 

 ence, and should be able to control stable help and put 

 such a spirit in his men that they do their work with 

 pleasure and with readiness. 



It is very important that the horses are divided 

 equally among the riders, but under no consideration 

 should the favorite horses be allowed to be overworked 

 and ruined before their time. For this reason the pro- 

 prietor of a riding school should never keep such horses 

 as are useless to him and are not fit for work and stand 

 idle in the stable, but should dispose of them at once. 



As regards road-riding, it is very necessary to try and 

 arrange to get together parties to ride out under the 

 leadership of one of the masters, who is made strictly 

 responsible for the horses. When this cannot be done, 

 horses let out without a riding master should only be let 

 out to well known patrons and pupils of the establish- 



