HOW THE HORSE LEARNS 137 



From making him^ go rej)eatedly througli a gi- 

 ven evolution at a given point in the riding school 

 the horse easily comes to believe that he is desi- 

 red to make it whenever he is made to pass along 

 that point, and when passing along that point he 

 prepares for it and wishes to make it. This may 

 be soon remedied by being intent on forestalling 

 him and preventing him from going throngli the 

 evolution, making him continue straight on. Thus 

 he learns that in order to go through that evo- 

 lution in that place, he must wait until told to 

 do so by having tlie proper aids applied. 



These associations of place have the same 

 advantage when giving him instruction with the 

 lounge because the horse, from \\\q place v\iiere he 

 has been made to go through a given evolution 

 has learnt his way and is not confused by the 

 various aids given him with the lounge for the 

 purpose of improving the position of his body or 

 maintaining it in a good position. With the lounge 

 and with the whip he soon learns the evolutions 

 which he is made to go through in the riding 

 school, because they are constantly carried out at 



