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should be demanded, the increased action taking 

 place under the horse, the pairs of diagonally 

 disposed legs working in perfect unison, and the 

 horse being supple throughout. In all the side 

 movements in this trot the leg of the rider which 

 demands the movement should give accentuated 

 pressure as the fore leg of the opposite side is 

 being raised and extended, in order that the 

 diagonal action may be obtained and sustained 

 by the movement of the hind leg on the side of 

 the acting heel; it being understood that the 

 other heel of the rider always measures and con- 

 trols the effect of the heel giving the accentuated 

 pressure. 



At first, the snaffle-reins must assist those of 

 the curb-bit in demanding these movements upon 

 two parallel paths ; but the use of the former will 

 be gradually dispensed with in the manner before 

 described : the indirect indications of the curb- 

 rein being always preceded by a tension upon the 

 direct curb-rein. That is, in bending the head to 

 the right to pass to the right, the bridle-hand will 

 be turned towards the rider's right shoulder, to 

 give a direct tension upon the right curb-rein, 

 and then carried over to the right so the left 



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