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or easier. But such groups are composed, of riders 

 without initiative, their guiding rule being to go 

 iVQ others have gone. 



;ooc horse an, .ho has learned, as he ;"umps into 

 a field, to estimate the fence out of it and to pick 

 the best place in 'it, has gone a long way towards being 

 a first flight man. 



Of course, the far side of a fence must always be 

 a more or less unknown quantity. If this were not so, 

 riding to hounds would not be half the fun it is. at 

 it takes a very big ditch to trap a horse ridden freely, 

 yet collectedly, over a flying country, and if it is a 

 case of banks, the extra lift a horse will put in when 

 he finds a trap on the landing side is astounding. 



In the grass countries especially, with big fields 

 out, a man must learn to gallop . You must gallop in 



est at the start, slip over the first two or three 

 fences wherever you can get at them, then, if hounds run 

 on, you ought to find yourself with a more or less clear 

 front and in a position to watch the leading hounds and 

 pick your jes. 



One tip, which I was given before I went for my 

 first winter on the grass, I have found invaluable 

 and never forgotten. It was this: i matter how 

 fa: t hounds are run or how great a burry you are 

 in, take a strong steadier at your horse before each 

 fence. Pull right back into a canter twenty yards or 

 less from the fence, and then set him at it". Ridden 

 in this way, I have found that horses .lump bigger and be 

 and take less out of themselves. 



ze of advice has proved very useful bo 

 to myself and others. Some years ago I met a frie 

 at Tattersall' s , and he asked me to come and look at a 

 horse he thought of buying, a horse with a reputation, 

 although quite a young one. It was full of quality, 



