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mucli more complicated ; since we must give 

 an exact impulsion, sufficiently strong to 

 determine the movement of the legs, with- 

 out the body advancing. This movement 

 consequently demands a great deal of tact 

 on the rider's part, and cannot be practised 

 except upon a perfectly broken horse, — 

 broken as I understand it. 



Such is the vocabulary of the new figures 

 of the manege which I have created, and 

 have so often executed before the public. 

 As you see, this performance, which ap- 

 peared so extraordinary that people would 

 not believe that it belonged to equestrianism, 

 becomes very simple and comprehensible, as 

 soon as you have sudied the principles of 

 my method. There is not one of these 

 movements in which is not discovered the 

 application of the precepts which I have 

 developed in this book. 



But, I repeat, if I have enriched equita- 

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