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§ 207. No rider who cannot feel the manner in 

 which his horse's feet are placed can accurately ap- 

 ply the aids. This is one of the decisive argu- 

 ments for a close seat, without which such feeling 

 is out of the question. A good seat once obtained, 

 nothing is easier than to follow the advice of a 

 German teacher, Seeger, and, knowing the sequence 

 of the feet in the trot, to watch the fore-legs, and 

 try to recognize by feeling what one knows to be 

 the accompanying position of the hind-feet. 



CHANGES OF ACTION. 



§ 208. There are, of course, various ways in 

 which the same changes of action may be accom- 

 plished. We shall endeavor to select for our ex- 

 planations that one in which the horse would ac- 

 comphsh it under the influence of the rider, and, 

 although we may occasionally differ from Von 

 Oeynhausen, we must again repeat our acknowl- 

 edgements to him for the " s accession " of the legs 

 in many, though not all, of the cases, without, 

 however, at all charging him with our theories in 

 regard to them. 



Trot to walk. Supposing that in the trot the 

 horse has just put do^vn the diagonal right fore 

 and left hind-feet. The left anterior line is not com- 



