128 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



y. 



OF THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE FORCES OF THE 

 HORSE BY THE RIDER. 



When the supplings have subjected the 

 instinctive- forces of the horse, and given 

 them up completely into our power, the 

 animal will be nothing more in our hands 

 than a passive, expectant machine, ready to 

 act upon any impulsion w^e choose to com- 

 municate to him. It will be for us, then, 

 as sovereign disposers of all his forces, to 

 combine the employment of them in correct 

 proportion to the movements we wish to 

 execute. 



The young horse, at first stiff and awk- 

 ward in the use of his members, will need a 

 certain degree of management in developing 

 them. In this, as in every other case, we 



