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demns it as a movement to be employed outside of a riding- 

 school. If it be thought fit to retain it as a means for 

 teaching the use of the aids, it (like the passage) should be 

 practised head to wall as well as tail to wall. Personally, 

 I abominate it ; for it is the defence which the majority of 

 refusers adopt when they " run out " at an obstacle, and 

 when their riders vainly try to pull them straight. 



COURSE OF SCHOOL INSTRUCTION. 



The foregoing details of school training might be im- 

 parted more or less in the following sequence, supposing, of 

 course, that the horse has gone through the preliminary 

 work treated on in Chapters V. and VI. 



1. Collecting the horse at the halt, walk, and trot, with- 

 out going so far as to obtain the passage or piaffer. 



2. Circling and figure 8 at the collected walk and trot. 



3. Turn on the forehand. 



4. Turn on the haunches. 



5. Passaging : change of hand and counter-change of 

 hand at the collected walk and trot. 



6. Circling at the passage at the collected walk and trot. 



7. Passage and piaffer. 



8. Collected canter. 



9. Starting in the canter from the trot, walk, and halt. 



10. Circling at the canter. 



1 1 . Passage : change of hand and counter-change of hand 

 when cantering. 



12. Figure 8 at the canter. 



13. Change of leg at the canter. 



14. Cantering falsely. 



15. Circling at the passage when cantering. 



If the turn on the haunches provokes the horse to rear, 

 we may correct such a tendency by practice at the turn on 

 the forehand (see page 271). 



