Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-14

his pony, throwing the lariat and running
aoWu waid steers. needs big, strong saddle. II
il more comfortable to sit 10 and the high POM
mel Y 2 necessity for the coil Of rope. Yet an
carry his little, light saddle with
him and insist upon using it.
He rides forty, fifty and sixty miles a day on
9 man at the end Of his journey. In the same
way the western man coming east frequently
brings his cowboy saddle with him and uses Il
In the park or on hunt It il heavy; it is not
pretty; it IN not constructed for hard trotting
and rising I'm the stirrups, and for jumping It Is
one of the most dangerous things imaginable
Saddles are constructed for their proper uses
and they have their proper places. The cow
boys saddle is the only proper thing for west
ern riding. The stirrups are long, the seat is
ance., For park riding and hunting the saddle
should be small, should have no pommel aad
the security of the seat should be governed by
the clinging Of the knees.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PARK AND HUNT.
But riding in the park and riding on q hunt
are two entirely different things and the good
English or American riders ride accordingly.
It is not English to take an afternoon ride as
though you were hunting. Let your stirrups
be comfortably long, put in your feet only so
Tar as the ball, hold yourself moderately erect
and you are riding as park rider should
whether he comes from London or Washington.
IL you are hunting use a short stirrup, put the
whole foot in 1t, bend your BODY forward. He
who jumps and races cannot afford TO have his
foot slip out Of the stirrup. He must fire.
quently stand up in the stirrups like jockey
on the race track, and he must have all his at
tention concentrated to see what obstacles are
ahead of him. The writer has seen a cavalry
officer ride hunt in a cavalry saddle, cavalry
style. He escaped without injury, but he was
tempting Providence. He couldn't jockey. his
horse had a dead weight TO jump with and if he
had gone the ponImel would probably have in
jured tho rider for life. But the cavalrynian
had learned to ride certain way and he
thought his way the best for all purposes,
whereas it is the best way only for one purpose.
You cannot as Charles Dickens has observed.
put head and brains into brass door knob"
and you cannot MAKE an Anglo-maniac who has
seen Englishmen riding with the hounds IN
derstand that they seldom ride that way on the
road, and Dir. Ridewcll-Snafie, having copied
the hyphen from England, has copied ono
method OF riding from that country also and
hasn't sense enough to have any versatility.
THE CITY RIDER THE BEST.
At the risk OF having many good riders dis
sent to the proposition. the assertion will be
ventured that the city rider is generally better
one than the countryman. The latter rides
more, it is true, but his riding is for the most
part merely means for getting about. He
may Dreak colts sometimes ana he mas a hrfn
enough seat, but he always rides one way. The
city rider is more versatile. Riding is a sport
for him, and he rides along the road one day,
rides hunt another day, and goes on the track
in gentlemen rider races sometimes. The re-
suit is that he learns to ride every way.
But a man like James Ridewell-Snaffle will
never be good rider under any circumstances.
"A fool and his money are soon parted and the
proverb may be paraphrased, a fool and his
horse are soon parted. The latter resents the
close contact Of the former and sooner or later
knocks him off