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most striking and important of all the 

 movements, but that in them is also 

 found the highest test of the skill of 

 the rider. But hardly any two authori- 

 ties have agreed upon the method by 

 which this is to be taught, and few can 

 be found who hold the same opinion as 

 to the best manner of making the 

 trained horse change in the gallop. I 

 have never had any faith in the method 

 so usually accepted, even by the highest 

 authority, of teaching the horse to 

 gallop by a false method, to aftei-wards 

 substitute a better one in demanding 

 his performance of that pace. 



If the fore-hand of the horse is 

 lightened by bringing back its forces, 

 that side will be the lighter from which 

 we demand the most ; and to make 



