OBJECTS OBTAINED BY DIRECT FLEXION. 63 



the more certain when the horse no longer dares to go up to 

 his bridle when moving forward, on account of the pre- 

 ponderance which the hand has on the legs, whenever the 

 animal wants to advance. 



Fig. 12. — Baucher's flexion when mounted. 



Finally, the work of making the horse go forward consti- 

 tutes the great difference between my system of equitation 

 and that of Baucher. 



My first lesson has been to make the animal go forward. 



In his Dictionnaire raisonnce (V equitation (1833), page 112, 



