HOW TO MAKE MONEY BY HORSES. 103 



ing and selling horses that have been hunted, and, 

 consequently, shewn their merits and demerits as 

 arising from natural failings ; but there are acquired 

 failings, and here great judgment is necessary to dis- 

 criminate between faults that are curable and those 

 that are not. Many horses get into the habit of 

 refusing their fences from two very opposite modes 

 of treatment from their riders ; a shirking, cunning 

 rogue will ver)" shortly find it out if he has a timid 

 horseman on him, and, having made this discovery, 

 will very shortly jump when he thinks proper, 

 and refuse when he does not ; while, on the other 

 hand, a nervous and timid animal will often become 

 so alarmed by being driven at his fences without 

 being allowed time to collect himself, and take off at 

 the right place, that fearing, by such bull-riding, 

 being driven into a fence, he refuses it altogether ; 

 such a rider will probably turn him round, take a 

 longer gallop up to it, and by increasing the pace, or, 

 as probably he would term it, " not giving him time to 

 refuse," he drives him fairly, or rather unfairly, into 

 it, making matters far worse than they were before, 



