APPENDIX 



Extract from Bauchers ' Mtthode 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 

 equilibrium 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 third 

 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 movement, at whatever pace, the rider can 

 instantly appreciate the degree of justice with which 

 he has acted. 



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