6o 



HORSEMANSHIP. 



Otherwise marked out, and to this the practice should be 

 confined. The accompany- 

 ing diagram describes the 

 lines to work on. The two 

 large circles, A and B, are 

 each fifty feet in diameter 

 and can readily be described 

 by means of a lawn-tennis 

 marker ; the smaller ones, C 

 and D, are necessarily each 

 twenty-five feet in diameter. 

 The intersection of the circles 

 and the termination of the 

 diagonal lines are the points 

 where the ground is to be 

 changed from one circle to 

 another. The rider need not 

 confine himself to working 

 in one circle, as this be- 

 comes monotonous and irk- 

 some, and moreover soon 

 brings the horse into the 

 treadmill habit of working 

 it, reeUng it off by rote. He 

 should never be aware of 

 the rider's next move or in- 

 tention except through the 

 truth and correctness of the 

 aids. 



After travelling round the 

 large circles, he should be 

 guided to perform the figure 8. The number of circles may 

 be multiplied and their diameter diminished, the rider, from 



