CHAPTER IV. 



TROT AND GALLOP. TRAVERS AND RENVERS. 



PIROUETTES FROM ACTION. LOW PIROUETTES. 



THE PIROUETTE VOLTE. 



I^HE horse should now be ridden in the t ravers 

 and renvers in the walk and in the united 

 trot, both to the right and to the left, upon 

 straight lines and upon circles, half-circles, and 

 other figures, changing from travers to renvers 

 and from renvers to travers, the proper bend of 

 the head being always demanded, and the diago- 

 nal position of the body of the horse with refer- 

 ence to the parallel paths being observed. In 

 turning from travers to renvers, or from renvers 

 to travers, large circles should at first be followed, 

 to be gradually reduced until the movement 

 becomes a low pirouette, or a pirouette reversed, 

 the horse having been very closely collected for 

 abrupt changes of direction. 



In ridine the horse in the shortened, or united 

 trot, a very high state of union and balance 



