APPENDIX 111 



II 



Extract from Baucher's " Methode d' Equitation basee 

 sur de Nouveaux Principes,^^ 



" MAINS SANS JAMBES ET JAMBES SANS MAINS " 



I AM going to show that the simultaneous employment 

 of the legs and hands will never give the horse equi- 

 librium of the first order, or constant balance. Since 

 the resistances of the lower jaw arise always from bad 

 distribution of the weight, how can the rider who 

 employs at the same time the impulsive and the 

 moderating forces, legs and hands, feel whether his 

 legs are not opposing the true translation of the weight 

 controlled by the hand, and vice versa, whether the 

 hand has not destroyed the nicety of the impulsion 

 communicated by the legs ? In fact, either the hand 

 has been just in its action, or it has produced too much 

 or too little effect. In the first and third cases, the use 

 of the legs has been more or less hurtful ; in the second 

 case only, the legs will have corrected the fault of the 

 hand, and their assistance will have been opportune. 



It is the same in the case of the legs in the first and 

 third above-mentioned cases ; the opposition of the 

 hand will be hurtful, and it is only in the second case 

 that it will be useful in correcting the fault committed 

 by the legs. 



In employing one force at a time, either that of the 

 legs to give impulsion, or that of the hand to operate the 

 translation of weight useful for such and such move- 

 ment, at whatever pace, the rider can instantly 

 appreciate the degree of justice with which he has acted. 



