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45, or even less. We must remember always to keep more 

 weight on the inward stirrup than on the outward stirrup. 



THE PASSAGE WITH TAIL TO WALL. 



After the horse has learned to do the passage with his 

 head towards the wall, the presence of which has the natural 

 effect of regulating the movement to a considerable extent, 

 we may teach him the more difficult evolution of doing the 

 passage with his tail to the wall. Being, say, on the right 

 rein, we may turn the horse on his haunches to the right 

 through an angle of 45 (one eighth pirouette), and make him 

 pass to the left as before directed, with his hind feet on the 

 track. Having gone the required distance, we may halt 

 him, turn him on his haunches through an angle of 90 

 (quarter pirouette), and make him pass to the right. We 

 may change the passage with tail to wall to passage with 

 head to wall, or vice versa, by turning the horse on his 

 centre. 



A school horse should be able to passage down the centre 

 of the manege or in the open, and without the assistance of 

 any wall by which to regulate his direction. 



CHANGE OF HAND BY THE PASSAGE. 



We may change the hand to which we are going by making 

 the horse move diagonally across the school at the passage. 

 The direction of the passage should be at an angle of 45 to 

 the side of the school from which the departure was made ; 

 the body of the horse should be kept parallel to the sides of 

 the school, and the horse may resume his straightforward 

 direction on regaining the track after his diagonal march. 



COUNTERCHANGE OF HAND BY THE PASSAGE 



is executed in the same manner as the preceding evolution, 

 except that when half the diagonal movement has been 



