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as contra sJiouldej^-iii. Left sJioidder-in (the horse 

 advancing with its right side, its head bent to the 

 left) is demanded in the same manner, right and 

 left aids being interchanged. 



Travers and Re7ivers are other two movements 

 upon the two paths to either side, and they are 

 identical except that in the first-named the fore- 

 hand follows the greater circumference at the turns, 

 while in renvers the croup follows the greater cir- 

 cumference in changing direction. If a horse 

 should pass through the middle of the School upon 

 two paths, no one could say whether it was in 

 travers or renvers until it came to the change of 

 direction, and as the aids are used in precisely the 

 same way, I should not have recognised the distinc- 

 tion were it not that it is occasionally convenient to 

 use terms which save descriptions of movements. 



In travers, or head to the wall, the horse passes 

 to either hand upon two paths, the forehand upon 

 one path slightly in advance of the croup which is 

 upon the other path, the fore-leg and hind-leg of the 

 side opposite to that with which the horse is leading 

 passing in front of the fore-leg and of the hind-leg 

 respectively of the other side, the head bent in the 

 direction of the movement. 



To put the horse in travers to the right, the 



rider will move it forward at a walk, having the 



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