318 SOME GENERAL REMARKS. 



preponderance of days, at least in. the 

 provinces, wlien no such opportunity occurs 

 for thus taking it out of an inveterate puller. 

 Ladies often make admirable horse- 

 breakers by reason of their sympathy, 

 excellent hands, and superior patience. 

 "Carries a lady" now-a-days is not so 

 important a qualification as it was in the 

 days of long-skirted habits. No horse I 

 have broken has seemed to care whether it 

 was a man or a woman who mounted him. 

 Still, it is not advisable that a lady should 

 first mount the colt. She would be at a 

 disadvantage. The side seat can never be 

 quite so strong as a man's, while there is 

 obviously far greater danger of her being 

 mixed up in case of a fall. The ideal 

 mount for a lady is a thoroughly broken 

 animal of easy paces, well up to, or a bit 

 above, hel" weight. Eormerly, a pretty, weedy 

 horse, with a graceful neck and peacocky 

 style, was pronounced just the thing for 



