166 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



To the work, then, cavaliers ! If you will 

 follow my principles, I can promise you that 

 your purses will be less often emptied into 

 the hands of horse-dealers, and that you 

 will render the meanest of your hacks 

 agreeable. You will charm our breeders of 

 horses, who will attribute to their efforts of 

 regeneration that elegance and grace which 

 your art alone could have given to your 

 chargers. 



Lowering the hand. The lowering the 

 hand consists in confirming the horse in all 

 his lightness that is, in making him pre 

 serve his equilibrium without the aid of the 

 reins. The suppleness given to all parts of 



legs and the hand ? Is it not by this spurring, judiciously 

 applied, that we bring in at will the hind legs more or less 

 near the centre of gravity ? Is not this the only way of 

 increasing or diminishing the leverage of the hocks, 

 whether for extending or raising them in motion, or for 

 the purpose of halting ? 



