3Q HOW TO RIDE 



bear upon the bit of the heavy hand, and 

 instead of becoming light in the front at 

 its pressure upon the mouth, the fore-hand 

 will be the heavier for this opposition. 

 It is for such horses and such riders that 

 some writers upon the art advocate that 

 the head should be pulled to the left to 

 lighten the right shoulder, when the rider 

 wishes his horse to lead in the gallop 

 with the rig-lit side. Now it is af2:reed on 

 all hands that a horse's head should be 

 turned in the direction that he goes. In 

 the above instance the head of the horse 

 is turned to the left, and he is to lead off 

 with the right side. Then if his head is 

 carried to the rio-ht to chano^e direction to 

 that side, the horse should, if he answers 

 to his sis^nals, chano^e his leoj and be 

 false in his gallop. But when the heavy- 



