124 MODERN HORSEMANSHIP. 



shortened-gallop (or school gallop) by demanding a 

 closer union ; and in time from this shortened gallop 

 to the 'poise' or 'half-halt,' resuming the gallop 

 before the animal has grown heavy in hand, and 

 gradually making the half-halt (what it should be) 

 nothing more than a ' rest of one beat ' in the 

 cadence of the pace. 



When the horse has been taught to observe the 

 half-halt, it may be taught to take gallop right and 

 gallop left from ' in place,' in exactly the same 

 manner as from the walk or from the slow trot. 



The horse should have long and carefully con- 

 ducted lessons in the gallop, being made to change 

 the rates of speed and the forms of collection at 

 the will of the rider, and it should be made to gallop 

 In circles of various diameters, first with the legs of 

 the side to which it is turning making the extended 

 strides, and afterwards in the contra gallop. 



The horse should then be ready to be taught the 

 gallop changes. I have said that the horse goes 

 into air from a fore-leg at each stride, this fore-leg 

 being the right in gallop right, the left in gallop left. 

 It is when the hind-legs are leaving the ground for 

 the weight to be thrown upon this advanced fore- 

 leg that the opportunity is given the hind-legs to 

 change their order, and when the fore-legs are free 

 from the ground they change their order, and the 



