BUCK-JUMPING. 



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BUCK-JUMPING. 



Under this heading I shall include the minor vices of 

 plunging and "pig-jumping." Bucking is all but 

 unknown among English and Eastern horses, but 



Fig. 146. — Riding mountain zebra. 



is seen to its highest perfection among Australian and 

 New Zealand animals, especially those that have been 

 allowed their liberty up to a comparatively late period 

 of life, say, four years old. I have ridden some buck- 

 jumping Argentine horses which were expert per- 

 formers : many of the wild Russian steppe horses 

 are very bad buck-jumpers. Some English horses. 



