TIME BRINGS CHANGES
IN RACING AND RIDING. Time brings about, many changes and some of them are not an improvement on the old order of things. The illustrated press can throw a good deal of light on racing and riding, and provide some interesting contrasts in pas', and present methods of handling horses. It was once the common practice for the best riders attached to a stable to be put up in the early handling of rising two-year-olds. Those with the best hands and a good lengthy seat in the saddle were selected so as tn avoid riding on the reins. This has all been changed and some pictures of rising two-year-olds show them with riders up with their knees higher than the withers of their mounts? Some old-time trainers would be astounded if they saw youngsters riding with such a seat. It means that the youngsters will be almost certain to develop a hard mouth and so be anything but easy to handle at the barrier or in a race. With such a seat it is next door to impossible to ride a horse with as light a rein as could be done with a longer leather and the
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1939, Page 9
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