LUNGING HORSE OVER FENCES. 



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The system of turning horses loose into a circular 

 enclosure (see page 263), fenced in and provided with 

 obstacles, and then making them jump with a long driving 

 whip, is good as far as it goes ; but neither it, nor the plan 

 of lunging with a leading rein and cavesson, has any pre- 

 tensions to teaching obedience to the reins when jumping, 

 without which a safe and clever style is unattainable. 



Fig. 113. — Teaching horse to jump with long reins. 



It is well to make the fences stiff or unpleasant (by the 

 use of gorse, for instance) to hit, so as to teach the pupil 

 not to chance them. Two or three lessons of this sort will 

 be sufficient to make the generality of horses clever enough 

 to carry a rider in good style. The horse should then be 

 saddled, a man or boy put up, without giving him at first 

 any reins to hold, and the horse driven over the fences as 



