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though rising in the stirrups will make this pace much 

 more easy for the rider, it will not benefit the animal to 

 the extent one might imagine ; for, strange to say, almost 

 every horseman, when rising at the trot, invariably comes 



Fig. 68. — Beginning of right diagonal. 



Fig. 69. — Right diagonal. 



Fig. 70. — Right diagonal. 





Fig. 71.— Suspension. Fig. 72.— Left diagonal. 



Flying Trot. 



down on one particular pair of diagonals. Thus, some 

 will put their weight only on the right diagonals ; others 

 only on the left. When a rider rises in the stirrups, 

 his weight is borne by only one pair of diagonals. As 

 each pair has to do its own allotted work, it is nearly 



