A COVERED RIDING SCHOOL

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1334, 18 November 1915, Page 5

A COVERED RIDING SCHOOL

This biorse-sch'O'Oling in practice is a most interesting spectacle. The first process takes place in a covered, riding school, with a tan floor that tends to save both horse and rider. Nothing teaches the horse better than to be quietly put on his back in the tan every time he tries tricks. With a system of ropes and belts (affixed after primary lassoing of the horse) he is thrown at each recurrence of his vice. If the horse has any sense at all, as nearly all of even these bad 1 horses have, he begins to associate his fall with his faults and to become more reasonable. After learning a little sense in the riding school he is led out to an enclosed ring, where >he does a tew rounds. At first he is perhaps a mad thing. but before long the wildest horse is plodding round and round, glad to take his task at a reasonable pace. taught to answer the reins’ and whip. Thence he goes to the riding school again and a rough-rider will mount him. The rider lays face downwards across the saddle, with both’ feet dangling on one side, so he can slip off at any moment. Later he mounts in normal fashion, and in time the horse is taugh’t to answer to heel pressure as well as to reins. There are horses in the “reformafory” with freak vices. One. for instance, from the Life Guards is quite good till he sees a uniform. One will do anything in th’e shafts, but if ridden he goes wil-d. One is fond of travelling on his knees. The reformatory has it casualties. One poor fellow was killed not long ago, and legs have been broken before now.

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