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Mounting — The first ride — Remarks on grooms and 

 coachmen — How to pass a heap of stones — When to 

 use whip and spur — Mouthing — Horse-taming — Captain 

 Cuttle's fig-tree 43 



CHAPTER IV. 



TEACHING THE COLT HIS PACES. 



The walk — Ignorance of Englishmen as to the value of the 

 walk — Australian walking horses — The trot — The jig- 

 jog — The flying trot — Ladies' trotters — The canter — 

 Ladies' rocking horses — The gallop — Trainers . . 63 



CHAPTER V. 



THE ROAD HACK. 



His conformation — The ladies" horse — Rotten Row — The 

 covert hack — The hunter — For an open country — For a 

 cramped country — ' Made hunters ' — Pleasures of a pull- 

 ing horse — Breaking in a colt to hounds — ' Can he 

 leap?' — Natural jumpers — Artificial fences— Lifting 

 horses at their fences — An incident — Water jumps — 

 How to fall well — High-couraged versus sluggish horses 

 — Washing horses' legs — Mud fever — Stopping horses' 

 feet — Microscopic experiments — English racers in Aus- 

 tralia and India — Paring horses" feet — Colts shedding 

 their teeth — Composition of bone — Two-year-old racing 

 — Prize-fighters — Early maturity and early decay — 

 Famous American trotters : Topgallant, Lady Blanche, 

 Dutchman, Ajax, Flora Temple, Lady Thorn, Goldsmith 

 Maid, Dexter, American girl — Racing now-a-days a 

 money-making business 75 



