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make the animal move by the aid of me 

 chanical means. 



10. To trot backioards, tlie horse preserv 

 ing the same cadence and the same step as 

 in the trot forwards. 



The first condition, in order to obtain the 

 trot backwards, is to keep the horse in a 

 perfect cadence, and as rassemble as possible : 

 the second, is all in the proceedings of the 

 rider. He ought to seek insensibly, by the 

 combined effects, to make the forces of the 

 fore hand exceed those of the hind parts, 

 without affecting the harmony of the move 

 ment. Thus we see that by the rassembler, 

 we will successively obtain the piaffer sta 

 tionary, and the piaffer backwards, even 

 without the aid of the reins. 



11. To gallop backwards, the time being 

 the same as in the ordinary gallop; but the 

 fore legs once raised, in place of coming to 

 the ground, are carried backwards, that the 



