MODERN RIDING. 



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To do this with ease, the following remarks 

 may be useful, or may at least prevent ridi- 

 culous habits. 



Let the trot be extended to such a degree 

 that the action of the horse may raise you 

 considerably from the saddle, while the sitting 

 becomes rough and uncomfortable. To at- 

 tempt it before would be not only unseemly, 

 but difficult : for the faster the horse trots, the 

 easier it is to rise. 



Beginners are apt to try this in a slow trot, 

 in which the action of the horse does not suf- 

 ficiently raise them, and they endeavour to 

 raise themselves by the stirrups. This is 

 labour instead of ease, and such persons are 

 said, in derision, to ride faster than their 

 horse. 



It is then the action of the horse, and not 

 any effort of your own, that should raise you. 

 If you accordingly bring your body a little 

 forward when the action of the horse raises 



