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CHAPTER IX. 

 SCHOOL BREAKING. 



General remarks on school breaking The school horse Collecting the horse at 

 the halt Collecting the horse at the walk and trot Teaching the horse to 

 strike off correctly into the canter Changing the leg at the canter Figure 

 of eight at the canter Cantering falsely Turn on the forehand Turn on 

 the hind quarters The passage The passage with head to wall The pas- 

 sage with tail to wall Change of hand by the passage Counlerchange of 

 hand by the passage Circling at the passage The halt Change from one 

 pace to another Shoulder in Course of school instruction- Additional 

 school movements Extension of a fore leg The Spanish walk The 

 Spanish trot Turn on the forehand on three legs The canter on three legs 

 Changes of leg at the canter A circus high-school act. 



GENERAL REMARKS ON SCHOOL BREAKING. 



THE necessity for cavalry horses, whether acting in masses or 

 singly, being " collected " to an unusual extent, so as to 

 make them as handy as possible, initiated at an early period 

 of military history a special training for war horses, which, 

 while accomplishing its own purpose, was obtained by 

 sacrificing to some extent their general usefulness. As in 

 early times the horseman was a mounted fighting man ; 

 the arts of breaking and riding were then cultivated from a 

 purely military point of view. By degrees the system of 

 breaking became elaborated from a means into an end, so 

 that we find many of its most eminent professors absolutely 

 ignorant of riding as a practical art. For instance, Baucher, 

 the great high priest of V Equitation savante, was never known 

 to ride a horse outside of a manege or circus. As riding 



