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Title: Horses and riding
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Nevile, George
Subjects: Horses Horsemanship
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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got sore withers from being ridden with an ordinarysaddle can be ridden without making him any worse,in a cut-back saddle. In addition to the pommelbeing too high the cantle or back of the saddle isgenerally made much too high. If you put an ordi-nary saddle on a straight-backed horse the saddlewill only rest on the parts under the pommel andmiddle, and the hinder part will be raised above thehorses back, so that when the rider moves backwardsand forwards on the saddle it will go up and do^vn onthe horses back something like the motion of a boatat sea; whereas the cantle ought to be flat, and thesaddle ought to press on the horses back from endto end, and then the weight will be distributed overa large surface, instead of being all concentratedin one place; and the horse would carry his loadeasier, and be less likely to get a sore back. SADDLING. 87 I have given a drawing of an ordinary huntingsaddle, a (fig. 12), and by the side of it a saddleshaped in the manner I have described, b.
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88 HOESES AND EIDIXG. There are two flaps visible on eacli side of asaddle—one a small one, near the top, called a skirt,and which is meant to cover the bars on which thestirrup leathers are hung; and the larger and lowerflap, to cover the straps to which the girths arebuckled. Under the small skirt flaps are two nearlyhorizontal steel bars, with one end turning up orlying down by means of a hinge. These are calledspring bars, and the stirrup leathers are slid on tothem, and then the hinged part of the bar is turnedup or left down as the rider wishes. When turnedup the bars are said to be shut, and when laid downthey are said to be open. These bars call for noparticular remark, except that it is much saferalways to ride with the bars down or open, as thereis then a much greater probability of the leatherscoming out in the event of a rider getting a fall andhis feet being entangled in the stirrups or leathers.As the whole object and intention of having thesebars is to ensure the ride

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