PARK RIDING. 85 



A FEW TECHNICAL TERMS USED IN 

 HORSEMANSHIP. 



" Action. When applied to the mouth, is the 

 agitation of the tongue and the mandible of a 

 horse, that by champing upon the bridle keeps his 

 mouth fresh. 



" Appui, or stay upon the hand, is the reciprocal 

 sense between the horse's mouth and the bridle 

 hand, or the sense of the action of the bridle in 

 the horseman's hand. ♦ 



"Brilliant. A brisk, high-mettled, stately 

 horse is so called, as having a raised neck, a fine 

 motion, excellent haunches upon which he rises, 

 though ever so little put on. 



"Chastisements, or corrections, are the severe 

 and rigorous effects of the aids, for when the aids 

 are given with severity, they become punish- 

 ments. The aids in horsemanship mean the 



