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and when, the pressure of the right seat-bone being 

 lightened, the restoration of the left anterior hne 

 occurs, this, while in the body connection it passes 

 the right hind-foot well to the right, in the neck 

 connection only moves the right fore-foot suffici- 

 ently around its left fellow to readjust the posi- 

 tion. 



In the pirouette renversee, we should suppose 

 that the addition made to the above movement 

 was, that the horse somewhat increases the neck 

 gathering, and retains it until the arc is completed. 

 He raises and passes across the left hind-foot, and 

 springs from the right hind-iooi by the right ante- 

 rior, left posterior lines maintaining, however, the 

 left-right reaction by keeping the left head condyle 

 in place as the working one. This last condition 

 enables him with the right fore-foot to bear off the 

 weight on to the left fore-foot. He finally descends 

 on the left hind-foot, and then plants the right hind 

 and right fore. 



§ 216. Circling on the Haunches. — The horse is 

 put in position, say with appui on the right fore 

 and left hind-leg. The right rein is well drawn, so 

 as to fully develop the lower C of the neck S, con- 

 vex to the left. Then, with the rider's right seat- 

 bone developing somewhat the right anterior wind- 



