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upon the dispositions of horses in general. 

 A horseman of any tact will soon understand 

 the modifications that he ought to make in 

 their application, according to the particular 

 nature of his pupil. Such a horse, for ex 

 ample, will require more or less persistence 

 in the flexions ; another one in the backing ; 

 this one, dull and apathetic, will require the 

 use of the spurs before the time I have indi 

 cated. All this is an affair of intelligence ; 

 it would be to insult my readers, not to 

 suppose them capable of supplying to the 

 details what it is impossible to particu 

 larize. You can readily understand that 

 there are irritable, ill-disposed horses, whose 

 defective dispositions have been made worse 

 by previous bad management. With such 

 subjects it is necessary to put more persist 

 ence into the supplings and the walk. In 

 every case, whatever the slight modifica- 



