132 METHOD OF HOESEMANSHIP. 



he wishes to correct a false movement, or 

 determine a new one. 



The walk, I have said, ought to precede 

 the other paces, because the horse having 

 three supports upon the ground, his action 

 is less, and consequently easier to regulate 

 than in the trot and the gallop. The first 

 exercises of the supplings will be followed 

 by some turns in the riding-house at a walk, 

 but only as a relaxation, the rider attending 

 less to animating his horse, than to making 

 him keep his head, while walking, in a per- 

 pendicular position. Little by little he will 

 complicate his work, so as to join to the 

 lightness of the horse that precision of move- 

 ment indispensable to the beauty of all his 

 paces. 



He will commence light oppositions of 

 the hand' and legs, to make the forces of 

 the fore and hind parts work together in 

 harmony. This exercise, by accustoming 



