Perfection, as Talbot-Ponsonby so rightly says, should always be the goal for which every rider strives relentlessly. Perfection will seldom, if ever, be reached, but the rider who studies the technique in every detail will be the nearer to achieving success. In every competition there will always be found the four or five riders who battle for the first place, and it is those one who can maintain their concentration and offer every assistance to the horse who will be the winner. Once in the arena the rider cannot afford to make a single mistake, as unlike many other sports no second...