PART II.— TRAINING. 

 THE MIDDLE SCHOOL OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



CHAPTER I. — THE RESULTS OF TRAINING. 



The advantao^e of a crood method of trainingf 

 over a crude and improper one may be seen by 

 comparing the carriage, action, and temper of a 

 well-schooled horse with an animal that has been 

 * broken ' in the usual manner. 



The schooled horse, carrying itself in a light and 

 graceful manner, at easy, regular, and controlled 

 paces, will render immediate obedience to every de- 

 mand of its rider. The horse that has not been 

 systematically schooled learns, in time, to carry its 

 burden more or less awkwardly, depending upon its 

 natural form and balance, in paces which hardly ever 

 equal in grace and smoothness those in which it 

 moved in liberty. If an animal consents to move 

 along in a shambling walk, a disunited trot, and a 

 lumbering gallop, hanging back from the bit or 



