My Racing Adventures 



" They are in far too great a hurry to get to 

 the other side, yet they are as useless there as 

 here or anywhere else. They might ride very 

 well," he added with a flourish, " if they knew 

 how ; and they don't look like learning how in a 

 thousand years or so." In that time, however, 

 they may help to spoil many good horses unless 

 their services are requisitioned with caution. Oh, 

 for the finer " hands " ! 



Here is additional advice to be studied like 

 the dictionary : never take the youngsters at too 

 large a place to start with. As long as they do 

 not refuse and do jump, be satisfied for the 

 moment, because more ambitious attempts will 

 follow in due season. High flights at first are 

 undesirable. Rome was not built in a day, and 

 we cannot hope to teach a horse how to jump 

 efficiently unless we give him a few preliminary 

 lessons of the right sort. If he begins to acquire 

 a habit of refusing, he is certain to cause a great 

 deal of trouble. I know a fine horseman who is 

 now " schooling " youthful steeds over a natural 

 country for hunting ; if they stop with him he 

 does not turn them round and give another run. 

 They have to jump from a stand or get over as 

 best they can, perhaps with a scramble or a fall. 

 xle is always prepared to take that chance. 



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