88 Curb, Snaffle, and Spur. 



To teach the horse to take the gallop left, the 

 right heel will demand the proper position of the 

 hind legs, and the impulses from the croup, and 

 an upward play of the left rein will prepare the 

 fore legs for the proper stride ; the rider's left leg 

 supporting his right leg as it gives the stronger 

 pressure, the right rein measuring the effects of 

 the direct rein. Of course, what has been said 

 about putting and keeping the horse straight in 

 the gallop right applies equally here. 



After the horse will take and maintain either 

 gallop right or gallop left, in a free and even 

 pace, the rider should carefully practise bringing 

 it to the shortened-gallop (or school-gallop), by 

 demanding a closer union ; and, in time, from this 

 shortened-gallop to the "poise," or "half-halt," 

 resuming the gallop before the animal has grown 

 heavy in hand, and gradually making the half-halt 

 (what it should be) nothing more than a " rest of 

 one beat " in the cadence of the pace. 



When the horse has been taught to observe 

 the half-halt, it may be taught to take gallop right 

 and gallop left from " in place " in exactly the 

 same manner as from the walk or from the 

 slow trot. 



