CHAPTER II 



GENERALITIES 



The quality and docility of the horses are essential 

 elements in the value of cavalry. 



They can be obtained, or at any rate largely 

 developed, by the care given to the education of the 

 young horses. 



INFLUENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY OF THE 

 COMMANDING OFFICER.— The Colonel helps, by all 

 the means in his power, the regular and complete 

 course of instruction, which must be considered as 

 the basis of the value of the regiment as cavalry. By 

 frequent inspections, by courtesy and encouragement 

 accorded to officers, non-commissioned officers, and 

 men, who distinguish themselves in the course of 

 training, the CO. exercises a personal influence on 

 the nature of the results obtained. He gives orders 

 for the perfect upkeep of the riding schools, for the 

 allotment of exercising grounds suited to the work, as 

 also for the laying out of courses on which the horses 

 can be galloped in all weathers, and in every way 

 shows by the great trouble he takes himself, how 

 keenly interested he is in the success of the training, 

 and consequently in the energy which others jDut into 

 their work. 



No horse is admitted into the ranks without having 



