TRAINING. 127 



pictures of jumping horses the animals are occasion- 

 ally shown to be making changes or half- changes 

 as they cross over the obstacles, but these are 

 accidental and undesired disorde^^s in the pace, and 

 would not prove how the horse changes in the 

 gallop where no obstacle intervenes. 



Knowing now how the horse makes the change 

 of gallop, we must see how the animal may be 

 brought to perform them at the demand of the rider. 



To teach the horse to change from gallop right 

 to gallop left, the animal should be put into a very 

 slow gallop right on a straight line. After some 

 strides in this pace, the rider will bring the horse to 

 a slow trot for half a dozen strides, and then very 

 quietly, and without harassing or exciting the horse, 

 put it into gallop left, by collecting the animal, by 

 slightly retiring his left shoulder, applying the right 

 leg, and making an upward play with the left rein. 



Gradually these strides in the trot will be reduced 

 in number, and in time be replaced by a half-halt 

 between the gallop right and gallop left, the aids to 

 make the change from the half-halt being applied 

 gently but with exactness ; and the shoulder of the 

 rider upon the side of the new change being slightly 

 retired, so that his weight will be properly disposed. 

 The half-halt will then be reduced until the horse 

 makes the change from gallop right to gallop left 



