180 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



it would destroy the harmony then existing 

 between his forces. 



This short explanation will, I hope, 

 suffice to make it understood that things 

 should be studied thoroughly before laying 

 down any principles of action. Let us 

 have no more systems then upon the exclu- 

 sive use of such or such a leg to determine 

 the gallop; but a settled conviction that the 

 first condition of this, or any other perform- 

 ance, is to keep the horse supple and light 

 — that is rassemhU; then, after this, to 

 make use of one or the other motive power, 

 according as the animal, at the start, pre- 

 serves a proper position, or seeks to leave 

 it. It must also be understood that, while 

 it is the force that gives the position to the 

 horse, it is position alone upon which the 

 regularity of movement depends. 



Passing frequently from the gallop with 

 the right foot to that with the left, in a 



