SHOULDER-IN. 451 



in the saddle (as cavalry-men are directed to do), it would 

 be impossible to press one leg, to any appreciable extent, 

 stronger against one side of the horse than the other leg. 

 Further, in the passage (p. 245), the moment when the horse's 

 outward foreleg is brought across the inward foreleg and 

 placed on the ground, is not utilised by our army riding 

 masters. The military " shoulder-in " is a passage with the 

 head turned the wrong way, and has as much sense in it, as 

 making a sound horse walk lame. This false and absurd 

 movement was evidently founded on a misconception of the 

 French term, tpaule en dedans, which is used in French riding 

 schools to describe the passage with the tail towards the wall 

 (croupe au mur), and the head and shoulders towards the 

 inside of the school. Our drill book system of riding has 

 the effect of making a horse deplorably routing 



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