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slant, slip your breech under you, and bring 

 your waist forward with an exertion propor- 

 tioned to the spring the horse makes. Bring 

 not your body upright, nor slacken the hold 

 with your legs, till after the hind feet have 

 come to the ground. 



A horse requires but little support or as- 

 sistance from the hand till he is over his 

 Leap, or coming to the ground : then the 

 support of the hand is proper and assists to 

 bring the body upright. The assisting and 

 lifting a horse over Leaps, may be done by 

 old practitioners, but the attempting it by 

 young ones is improper ;' they cannot judge 

 when ; and in the attempt would, most likely, 

 balk rather than assist. At the best, it can 

 only be done when a horse leaps freely and 

 determinedly : at other times, the offer to 

 assist would deter him from the Leap. 



The necessity of caution and delicacy in 

 the application of the aids naturally increases 

 in proportion to the speed at which the Leap 



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