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HINTS ON HORSEMANSHIP 



quite so hard. Or take boxing : when a man is 

 fighting he leans his body forward, both so as to 

 be in a position to spring at his opponent and to 

 be prepared to meet a blow from him. No matter 

 what branch of athletics we take, the laws of 

 dynamics must be observed, and so even more 



Sketch No. 2 



This is a sketch of a man quietly 

 trotting in the ordinary position. 

 The point to be noticed here is that 

 his attitude is similar in all respects 

 to that of the man in the next 

 sketch, about to jump a small drain. 



Sketch No. 3 



This man's attitude, it 

 will be seen, is the same 

 as that of the rider in 

 the foregoing sketch. Try 

 it for yourself and see. 



particularly in horsemanship, when the movement 

 of the horse is, to a considerable extent, uncertain. 

 The probable movements of the horse must be 

 anticipated. The greater the effort, the more must 

 the body be forward, and the more the body is 

 forward, the shorter must be the stirrups in order 

 to maintain the true balance of the body. For 

 example, a man, about to make a standing long 



