. The book of the horse : thorough-bred, half-bred, cart-bred, saddle and harness, British and foreign, with hints on horsemanship; the management of the stable; breeding, breaking and training for the road, the park, and the field. Horses; Horsemanship. Paces. 28t. METHOD OF SHORTENING REINS. (Sec-tage 2?.2.) WALKING, COLLECTING, REINING BACK. Walking is one of the most important paces of a hack, especially of a town hack, and it is a pace that can be very much improved by practice when the animal has any natural aptitude for it. It may safely be asserted that every horse that is fit
. The book of the horse : thorough-bred, half-bred, cart-bred, saddle and harness, British and foreign, with hints on horsemanship; the management of the stable; breeding, breaking and training for the road, the park, and the field. Horses; Horsemanship. Paces. 28t. METHOD OF SHORTENING REINS. (Sec-tage 2?.2.) WALKING, COLLECTING, REINING BACK. Walking is one of the most important paces of a hack, especially of a town hack, and it is a pace that can be very much improved by practice when the animal has any natural aptitude for it. It may safely be asserted that every horse that is fit for a hack can be made to walk well, that is, when gentle exercise has taken off the freshness of a young, well-bred, high- couraged horse. Every riding-horse should be made not only to stand still, but to start at a walk. The prettiest walk is when the nag, quietly settled down, and taught by long experience with a firm rider that he must not break, steps in true time smoothly along, with loose reins, nodding his head. But these are exceptions. There are very few horses which it is safe to leave entirely to themselves when they are fresh, without the silent monition of a rein lightly but so firmly held that the least deviation from the paths of propriety brings the bit to bear on the mouth. To walk at the fastest pace an animal is capable of the snaffle rein only must be used, or the double bridle with the curb rein held so as merely to indicate its presence. But in the street and the Park, where the best appearance is to be made by the horse, good horsemen ride on the curb, so as to obtain the utmost action at some sacrifice of pace. It is in this simple operation that the first experience is found of the meaning of light hands, a quality of the same character as " touch " in a pianist, which is important in every pace, from the slowest to the fastest, which is seldom found amongst bruising, brutal riders, and never amongst those who have not attained a secure scat.
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