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WOULD REGULATE RIDING METHODS. Some of the New Zealand "jumping" riders, who have visited Australia, have been remarkable for their short leathers, and in the Dominion their style of horsemanship has been condemned. The matter cropped up at the recent New Zealand Racing Conference, when it was proposed as a new rule that riders iu hurdle races and steeplechases should be compelled to lengthen their stirrup leathers when ordered to do so. In the opinion of some of the delegates the scheme was unworkable, but the voting was eighteen for the motion against sixteen opposed to it. However, it was lost on the three-fourths majority principle. Perhaps it was just as well, for if a rider, after refusing to comply with an order to lengthen his stirrups, proved himself capable of winning, the race could not well be taken from his mount, and he himself could only be punished for disobedience, not for incompetency. And I should say. the stewards would scarcely enjoy attempting to bring about a uniform style of horsemanship either over the jumps or on the flat. Pilot in Sydney Referee.
