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upon the dispositions of horses in general. 

 A horseman of any tact will soon understand 

 the modifications that he ought to make in 

 their application, according to the particular 

 nature of his pupil. Such a horse, for ex- 

 amplcj will require more or less persistence 

 in the flexions ; another one in the backing ; 

 this one, dull and apathetic, will require the 

 use of the spurs before the time I have indi- 

 cated. All this is an affair of intelligence ; 

 it would be to insult my readers, not to 

 suppose them capable of supplying to the 

 details what it is impossible to particu- 

 larize. You can readily understand that 

 there are irritable, ill-disposed horses, whose 

 defective dispositions have been made worse 

 by previous bad management. With such 

 subjects it is necessary to put more persist- 

 ence into the supplings and the walk. In 

 every case, whatever the slight modifica- 



