CANTER OR GALLOP. 65 



shoulders back, elbows down, and adapting her 

 own elasticity to the motion of the horse, be 

 supple and graceful. But ladies are necessarily 

 both ungraceful and insecure, if they bend for- 

 wards while setting off their horses in a canter 

 or gallop. The horse moves under the rider, 

 but the rider must go with the horse. 



In the canter or gallop, the horse must be 

 held with his head and crest up — light on his 

 fore-legs, and "well upon his haunches/' — 

 and not be allowed to lean the whole of his 

 weight upon his fore-legs and be light behind, 

 or, as it is termed, "heavy-in-hand/' but if 

 kept by a supple wrist light-in-hand, his figure 

 and action are elegant and easy, both to the 

 rider and himself, and his power is more under 

 command. Never gallop up hill, for though 

 the ascending motion may be pleasant to the 

 rider, the exertion strains the horse's hind quar- 

 ters. 



Ladies must not use the whip to the right 



side of the horse in a canter or gallop, when he 



is to gallop with his right leg foremost in a 



straight line (page 44). But when, (or practice 



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