In a fenced enclosure right by the stables, a white horse rears up as it clears an obstacle — a clipped hedge bush mounted on wooden trestles, serving as a makeshift jump. In the saddle is a man in a dark coat, riding breeches and a cap, holding the reins firmly. In the background rises a brick stable building with a round wall clock above an arched entrance and a small tower further off; a small white dog watches by the fence.
This scene shows another side of stable life we haven't seen yet — not riders calmly passing through the gate (exhibit No. 70), but the actual schooling of a horse over jumps in the manège itself. Interestingly, written sources about the "Riviera" café (exhibit No. 67) mention that in summer, when it wasn't needed for training horses, the estate's manège was converted into a theatre for the guests' entertainment. So it's quite likely that this very space, where a horse is being schooled to jump here, rang with entirely different sounds on summer evenings — actors' lines and applause.
The animation not only extends the jump itself but follows the horse onward — it lands beyond the obstacle and canters away along the fence, as though the frame had turned into a short film of the whole training exercise rather than freezing a single instant. The photograph, like several others in this group, stays black and white — only the motion itself comes alive.