lOO Curb, Snaffle, and Spur. 



the gallop has a less skilled adversary at a great 

 disadvantage ; and in everything connected with 

 the mounted soldier, the bridle-hand makes the 

 sword hand effective or of no avail. 



For the galloping movements upon two paths, 

 the pace should either be the school gallop or a 

 slow gallop of three beats. 



After the horse is fairly well accustomed to 

 pass on straight lines, and to make the ordinary 

 changes of direction of 90° in the travers gallop, 

 it should be brought to make the travers in the 

 gallop, to either hand, upon the whole circles of 

 large diameters, gradually reducing these. The 

 work upon the circles should not be continued 

 for any length of time at any one lesson, and the 

 circles should not be much reduced too rapidly, 

 or the horse will become heavy and constrained 

 in action. 



The diameters of the circumferences about 

 which these movements in the travers in gallop 

 are made will in time be reduced, until the croup 

 passes about a circle so small that the inner hind 

 foot treads on a central spot, and we shall have 

 the pirouette volte. 



The demi-pirouette volte will then be demanded 



