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to demand from the horse, at first, only a few steps (not more 

 than four) of the Spanish trot, lest the animal may acquire 

 the habit of doing it in a listless and slovenly manner. 



TURN ON THE FOREHAND ON THREE LEGS. 



In this exercise the horse turns his quarters from left to 

 right while holding his right fore leg raised off the ground 

 and extended to the front, and vice versa. To begin, we 

 make him turn his hind-quarters, say, from left to right, 

 with his near fore as a centre, through about a quarter of a 

 circle, using the aids as before directed (see page 212). 

 We halt him by applying the drawn-back right foot, make 

 him extend his off fore, and when he has brought it down, 

 we make him continue the turn ; and so on until he will do 

 the complete turn with the off fore straight out and more 

 or less parallel to the ground. We obtain by the reversed 

 aids the turn of the hind-quarters from right to left with 

 the near fore en jambette (raised and extended). 



THE CANTER ON THREE LEGS 



consists of a canter in which the fore leg of the side to which 

 the canter is made, is kept off the ground and extended to 

 the front. The principle, as taught by M. Fillis, of obtain- 

 ing this air, is while cantering the horse very collectedly, say, 

 to the right, to halt him and make him do the jambette 

 (more or less horizontal extension of a fore leg) with his off 

 fore. Start him again on the same leg, and continue halting 

 him and obtaining the jambette, until we get him to canter 

 for a stride or two without putting the off fore on the 

 ground. We should then caress him to show him that he 

 did what we asked him to do ; should begin again, and work 

 with him in the same way until he does the exercsie per- 

 fectly. By the reversed aids we may obtain the canter on 

 three legs with the near fore en jambette. 



