302 REACTIONS 



in obedience the circumstance of seeing horses 

 may be the occasion to go to them; — the cir- 

 cumstance of passing by the road which leads to 

 his stable may be the occasion of going to his 

 stable — the circumstance of meeting an object 

 which frightens him may be the occasion of swer- 

 ving and turning back. 



If reactions are not occasioned by provocation 

 of a particular . rider they have been provoked by 

 some previous rider and the recollection of this 

 earlier provocation is the occasion for the horse 

 to continue making such reactions even without 

 fresh provocation. 



When once the horse has been able to avoid 

 performing the required movement by making 

 reactions, he afterwards makes reactions even on 

 the first indication of an aid requiring it from him, 

 and so much the more on it being sought to com- 

 pel him by punishment, and even without the ap- 

 plication of punishment, merely owing to his 

 reminiscence that he had been able to avoid per- 

 forming the required movement by making reac- 

 tions. An occasion is necessary for the first reaction. 



