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of indicating our wishes, is the power of winning obedience 

 to those wishes. These, and these only, are the two things 

 to be aimed at, from the putting the first halter on the colt, 

 to his performance of the pirouette renversee au galop, — which 

 is perhaps the most perfect trial and triumph of the most 

 exquisitely finished horsemanship, and in which the horse 

 must exert every faculty of his mind to discover, and every 

 muscle of his body to execute, the wishes of his rider. 



It is a vulgar error, an abuse of terms, the mere jargon of 

 jockeyship, to say that the horse needs suppling to perform 

 this, or any other air of the manege, or any thing else that 

 man can make him do. All that he wants is, to be made 

 acquainted with the wishes of his rider, and inspired with the 

 desire to execute them. For example, among the innumerable 

 antics which I have seen fresh young troopers go through, 

 when being led to and from the farrier's shop, I have seen 

 them perform this very air, the pirouette renversee au galop, to 

 the right round the man who leads them. I have seen them 



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