* PREFACE. 



have endeavored to take from botli systems wliat I 

 found best in practice, namely, from the old system, 

 the principle of first bringing out the horse's action, 

 improving his paces, giving power and freedom to his 

 movements ; and from Monsieur Baucher's, those les- 

 sons which enable us to control that action, and thus 

 regulate the horse's paces, and render him handy and 

 obedient. 



