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forms of balance and union of the forces, the 

 rider may demand and secure any movement or 

 action of which the animal is physically capable. 



After the horse has been taught to pass " in 

 head to the wall," and " in croup to the wall," 

 smoothly and regularly, it should be made to 

 perform travers and renvers away from the wall, 

 when the rider must depend wholly upon the 

 hand and the heels. In these movements to 

 either hand upon two paths, the shoulder of the 

 rider upon the side of the movement should be 

 slightly retired : that is, in travers or renvers to 

 the right, the right shoulder of the rider should 

 be retired ; in travers or renvers to the left, the 

 left shoulder should be retired. 



There is a movement practised in most armies 

 called schlissen, or "closing up," in which the 

 horse is made to pass to the right or to the left 

 upon two paths, with the body straight across 

 the line of direction ; but this is objectionable by 

 reason that the horse is apt to knock its legs. 

 Intervals can be readily closed by the oblique 

 movements, and awkward interferences of the 

 horse's legs are avoided. 



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