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HINTS ON HORSEMANSHIP 



yet how common it is to see this position between 

 the flags. These are faults that must be eradi- 

 cated before we can consider ourselves a nation of 

 horsemen. 



There is one occasion when it is impossible to 



This position is only too common in steeplechasing. Here the 

 body has been thrown back actually before the horse took off. 

 The rider is now being pulled over the fence by his reins. 



This is strap-hanging, not riding, and has nothing to reconunend 

 it in any particular. 



prevent having one's body back. It is when on 

 approaching a fence, the horse takes off a stride 

 too soon, or, at any rate, a stride sooner than the 

 rider expects. This occurs fairly frequently in 

 steeplechasing when the horse is fresh, and more 

 rarely in the slower pacers of the hunting field, 



