JUMPING 



the rider, therefore, is to let the horse alone, and not 

 interfere with it by some wrong position in the 

 saddle or some wrong effect of the reins. The 

 important matter, then, is to gallop the horse 

 straight at the obstacle, neither too fast nor too 



THE HORSE,MOUNTED, LEAPS THE BAR DIRECTED BY 

 THE LONGE 



slow; to feel the contact of the bit and yet permit 

 freedom to the head and neck, not holding them 

 too high or too low ; and not to try to lift the horse's 

 front hand, but, on the contrary, to push it forward 

 during the entire movement by the pressure of the 

 rider's legs upon the horse's flanks near the girths. 

 Meanwhile the rider is to sit firm in his saddle, his 



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