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condyle. Supposing a horse in the " gallop to the 

 right " to be halted for an instant as he lands from 

 a spring. His feet are in position to step off with 

 the left fore, followed by the right hind-foot, if the 

 working condyle he changed. The horse, of course, 

 could easily accompKsh this, and possibly, the rider 

 passing the bridle hand to the right, so as to de- 

 velope the left posterior line in the neck by press- 

 ing out the convex, at the same time assisting this 

 by a very slight action of the left spur, and imme- 

 diately following the change of condyle by passing 

 the weight to the right seat-bone, in order to put 

 down the horse's right hind-foot, might teach him 

 to do it. 



Von Oeynhausen* remarks, " to change literally, 

 at once, from the gallop to the walk, demands such 

 precision on the part of the rider, in giving the 

 aids, and such patient waiting for, and ready an- 

 swering to them on the part of the horse, that it is 

 hardly ever really done. In almost all cases, in 

 common life, the horse takes a few short trotting 

 steps, and then first begins actually to walk." In 

 these steps the horse gradually eliminates a* a'* 

 and b^ b'^ from the action (§ 145). 



Gallop to Trot. — The horse being in gallop 



* " Gang des P/erdes und Sitz des JReiters " plate 44 text. 



