Horses and riding . is no great objection to them, and it may belaid down as a maxim that when you have a martin-gale on you are master of your horse, but when youhave not one he is master of you. For this reason you should always ride a younghorse in one, and also a strange horse; and you maylay down as a good rule that you ought always toride a horse with a martingale, till you know he will goproperly without one, G 82 HOESES AND EIDING. In riding with a martingale, if the reins are sewnon to the bit, the ends in the hand must be made tobuckle, or you cannot get the martingale on. If therein
Horses and riding . is no great objection to them, and it may belaid down as a maxim that when you have a martin-gale on you are master of your horse, but when youhave not one he is master of you. For this reason you should always ride a younghorse in one, and also a strange horse; and you maylay down as a good rule that you ought always toride a horse with a martingale, till you know he will goproperly without one, G 82 HOESES AND EIDING. In riding with a martingale, if the reins are sewnon to the bit, the ends in the hand must be made tobuckle, or you cannot get the martingale on. If thereins are buckled on to the bit then there wiU haveto be something on the reins between the martingalerings and the buckles, otherwise the buckles will getcaught in the rings and the horse will get his headfast. These are called stops, and are often sewn onto the rein. But the better way is to cut out twopieces of stiff leather about the size and shape of acrown-piece (see fig. 11), and cut a hole, b b, through Fig. each of them, which will admit the rein, and thencut one half of them, c, through at right angles to thehole for. the reins; these can be slipped on to anyreins after the martingale is put on, and will do forany bridle. They must be stiff, or they might comeoff in riding. It is better to use them, both for sewnand buckled reins. Instead of a martingale use is sometimes madeof a simple ring, which the reins are passed throughbefore putting them over the horses neck. This is BRIDLIXG. 83 to confine the reins and prevent the horse fromthrowing them over his head when tossing it up It will not do instead of a martingale, but itis better than nothing. It sometimes may happen that a rider may findhimself on a horse that is unmanageable without amartingale, but has not got one on. In this ease,if the horse has a breastplate on, the rider shoulddismount, unbuckle one rein, pass the reins throughthe ring of the breastplate, and then fasten themagain. It will not b
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