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MOUNTED INSTRUCTION 



To give oral instruction to all the riders at the same time the in- 

 structor may command: RTDE IX. The riders moving at the gait 

 at which they were riding-, or at the designated gait, and by the short- 

 est line, gronp themselves about the instructor. To resume the ride, 

 the instructor commands: CLOSE ON (SUCH RIDER). The rider 

 designated (by name) takes the track and a gait as indicated by the 

 instructor. The other riders move by the shortest line and place them- 

 selves on the track, one behind the otlier. with 4 feet distance from 

 head to croup. 



As soon as the collective instruction is sufficiently advanced the 

 commands and methods indicated in t!ie school of the scpiad may be 

 employed to group the riders near the instructor and to cause them to 

 take the track again. 



A As soon as the riders 



understand the principles of 

 controlling their horses the 

 instructor frequently com- 

 mands: RIDE AT 'will. 

 The riders scatter out in the' 

 interior of the riding hall or 

 rectangle or over a larger 

 designated area out of doors, 

 and riding at the g^ait ordered 

 execute the exercises on their 

 own initiative. 



When riders meet each 

 keeps to the right. 



There should be much 

 work on the track without 

 regard to distance between 

 riders in which the riders are 

 absolutely independent of 

 each otlier, the onl}^ oblig'a- 

 tion being to maintain the 

 gait and to march to the 

 hand directed Avhen on the 

 track. If the column be- 

 comes crowded individual 

 riders are permitted to turn 

 out at will and take the. track 

 at a convenient nlace on the 

 ()l)posite side. They should 

 move straight across the hall, 

 maintaining the gait. 

 The connnands do not inxohe innnediate compliance. Each rider 

 conforms to them when his place on the track and the state of prepara- 

 tion of his horse puts him in proper position to execute steadily the 



HAUNCHES-IN, UNIFORM BCND FROM POLL TO CROUP. 

 HAUNCHES-OOT, UNIFORM BEND PROM POa TO CROUP. 



