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REVIEW-PRACTICAL HORSEMANSHIP. 
in, and his ears in that middle position that shews good temper, 
and absence either of alarm, impetuosity, or sluggishness. This 
horse is pulled up merely by a gentle pressure on the bit, which, 
bringing the body of the rider quietly into his seat, it is sufficient 
to effect, and with such a tempered horse would be a signal that 
the canter was length enough. He turns rouffd and walks back 
cool and collected, looking placidly and good-humouredly around 
him ; and on the jockey patting his neck, it is seen that horse and 
man are on good terms with each other.” 
“We now see a rider coming along on a resolute leather-mouthed 
horse, ‘who is pulling double:’ he comes with his head low, di- 
rectly in a line with his body, and every nowand then thrusting it 
out between his legs, with a force no arms could controul. There 
is a determination in his eye, and a fixed, forward position of the 
ears, that shews his pulling has quite as much of temper as of any 
willing energy in it; for, possibly, when really called on, he curs 
it at once.” 
“ On such a horse we see the jockey is neither standing in his 
stirrups, nor with his body thrown back in the seat, but in a middle 
way, so as to allow him to * give and take’ with the horse, as his 
resolute temper may render necessary. His feet are fixed firmly 
in his stirrups, and thrown or rather held forward to give a stronger 
fulcrum to the body; his arms are pulled nearly straight. This 
causes him to keep his body in such a position that he can yield it 
forward when his horse gives one of those determined thrusts out 
of the head that such horses are very apt to do; for the reins being 
knotted, if the body was held stiff, the man would be pulled over 
his horse’s head; and further, by occasionally lessening for an in- 
stant his pull at his horse, he makes a fresh impression on his dead 
mouth. No man could retain a neat or graceful seat on such a 
brute as the one I describe. We will now look at him pulling up. 
No gentle pressure will do here, no indication of the rider’s wish 
would be attended to. We see the man throw his body back : 
this checks the horse, but does not pull him up. It is repeated, 
perhaps, again and again; at last he is, as a sailor would say, 
‘ brought to ;’ and, in truth, no bad term for pulling up such a re- 
probate. He comes back walking, now sluggishly and doggedly 
along. You seldom see such a horse look about him, but would 
be found ready to salute anything within his reach with his heels. 
If he does look at a passer-by., it is with something of the amiable 
ken of an over-driven, half-infuriated bullock. We see the jockey 
stretch his fingers on his thighs, to get them suppled after being 
cramped by the mauling they have had ; for persons who have only 
ridden ordinary horses have no conception how a thoroughly reso- 
lute race-horse can pull, — as our late friend, Mr. Jessamy, would 
