SCHOOL RIDING 275 



Of course the proceedings are reversed when the 

 horse is wanted to go the other way round. To 

 turn on the haunches, always supposing that the 

 horse is wanted to go the right way round, the 

 hind quarters are stayed by the right leg and the 

 horse circled round by the right rein which must 

 be used carefully or the horse may run back. 

 The left leg should be closed strongly to prevent 

 the horse working his quarters round to the left. 

 In this movement the quarters must be sta- 

 tionary. 



' Shoulder in ' is a prehminary to the ' pass- 

 age ' and indeed differs from that movement 

 principally in that in the former the horse bends 

 and looks the contrary way to that which he is 

 going and in the latter he bends, looks and moves 

 in the same direction. In ' Shoulder in ' a horse's 

 body is bent, but not too much so, and he takes 

 up fresh ground sideways in the contrary direction 

 to that in which he is looking. If the horse is 

 bent to the right something like this happens. 

 His forehand is brought a little round by the 

 gentle use of the right rein, the left leg being 

 closed up as if the horse were going to incline to 

 the right. Then the right leg is closed and the 

 shoulders are led off to the left by the left rein, 

 whilst the horse is kept bent to the right. The 

 pressure of the right leg makes him cross his legs 

 and gain ground to the left. 



The use of the Shoulder in and the passage are 

 entirely educational ; in the words of Savigear, 

 ''to make the horse supple in the neck and ribs, 



