MODERN RIDING. 269 



has acquired by bad riding. When you let 

 the horse extend himself in the gallop, you 

 will feel the support, he takes to be a steady 

 pull ; and when this support, with his eager- 

 ness to get on, occasions him to pull beyond 

 your strength to hold, you are to check him, 

 by raising your hand and body, and thereby 

 throwing your weight off the centre back- 

 wards. This checks and pulls him a little 

 together, an advantage you must endeavour 

 to keep, by not letting him get so much su- 

 periority again, for you are not to continue 

 with your weight out of centre, but ride with 

 your body more upright, which will raise 

 your hands, and increase your power, while 

 it diminishes the horse's. 



If it should happen that by raising your 

 hand and body to check, and get the ascen- 

 dency of the horse, you raise and throw his 

 head out of place, you must let him drop it 

 again, for no horse can gallop well, nor safely, 

 if his head is not in the place in which, ac- 

 cording to the make of his forehand, nature 

 intended he should carry it. 



