A HORSEMANSHIP QUES TION

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 May 1916, Page 3

A HORSEMANSHIP QUES TION

OtN WiLIOH LEG ;>HOO<L.L> A HORSE G&NTJ&R P There is so great a diversity in the action of horses in periormmg the curate r that single description will suffice; nor is it indeed easy to define any one of them. The canter is an a/triiicial pace that is at lirS? extremely tiring to the horse and is generally only to bo produced in him by r.he restraint of a powerful bit which compels him to throw a great part of his weight on itß haunches. Mr experience has been that moet horses step oft with the off forefoot, but this is not a hard and; fast rule, and you should decide by observing into which method j the horse naturally falls and enfiea-vour to keep him to it. Some times after a horse has formed 1 a style of canter, if he is constantly shaken up, he will commence to do it in another way, with the result that he is inclined to tripMany hacks get the refutation of being trippers in this way, when ill reality i!t is usually the fault of the rider It might interest" you to Know that the word canter is an abbreviation, Canterbury, and springs from the term. Canterbury Gallop, which was used describe the moderate and easy gallop adopted by pilgrims when journeying to Canterbury in "ve olden dares.