60 SYSTEM FOK TRAINING CAVALKY HOKSES. 



The liorse must neither lean on liancl or leg, and his 

 balance should be perfect. (Vide plate 13.) 



Begin by communication an impulse with the legs, 

 light at first, but often repeated ; then let the horse 

 walk on, closing your legs gradually, and exciting 

 him to increase his action ; then, then only, feel the 

 reins in concert with the legs, and at the same inter- 

 vals of time, keej)ing up an imperceptible incitement, 

 which reacts on the horse, and makes him keep his 

 legs going, though without any regularity or precis- 

 ion. Be satisfied with this at first, and whenever the 

 horse raises his legs, bringing them to the ground 

 again without gaining much ground to the front, halt, 

 and make much of him, and soothe him after the ex- 

 citement you have caused, by recpiiring of him that 

 the object of which he does not yet understand. 



Once the horse is brought to keep his legs moving, 

 then beo^in to reo-ulate and increase the interval of 

 time at which he raises them and brings them to the 

 ground. 



It is by the pressure of each leg in succession you 

 obliire the horse to remain lonc^er balanced on the 

 opposite side. At the moment the horse is prepai-ing 

 to bring his fore-leg to the ground, close your leg on 

 the same side ; if you do this at the proper time, the 

 horse will balance himself slowly from side to side, 

 and raise his legs well off the ground. 



By quickening the alternate pressure of your legs, 

 you quicken the " Piafi^er ;" it therefore depends upon 



