. Riding and driving. Jumping 143 recover from a stumble. But hurdle-racing ispoor sport, neither jumping nor racing. When the horse will leap the hurdle willinglyand perfectly, it should be taken into the fieldsand put over fences, ditches, and streams. Mosthorses are at first timid in facing water, but witha little care a horse may be made to attempt anyobstacle that is offered. In riding at broad wateror at any wide jump, the rider should sit down inhis saddle and send the horse forward in a goodpace so that the momentum will carry the massover. In Great Britain and in Ireland, in those cou
. Riding and driving. Jumping 143 recover from a stumble. But hurdle-racing ispoor sport, neither jumping nor racing. When the horse will leap the hurdle willinglyand perfectly, it should be taken into the fieldsand put over fences, ditches, and streams. Mosthorses are at first timid in facing water, but witha little care a horse may be made to attempt anyobstacle that is offered. In riding at broad wateror at any wide jump, the rider should sit down inhis saddle and send the horse forward in a goodpace so that the momentum will carry the massover. In Great Britain and in Ireland, in those coun-tries where banks are sometimes the boundariesof fields, the horses are taught, usually by easylessons in the cavesson or by being driven beforethe trainer in long reins, to leap upon the top ofthe bank and from thence across the ditch. Thedexterity and cleverness with which these ani-mals will poise themselves on the top of a slip-pery bank, and the security with which theywill leap from such insecure footing, are
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