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CHAPTER XL— ON TWO PATHS. 



LOW PIROUETTES— MOVEMENTS UPON TWO PATHS- 

 WHEELS AND HALF-WHEELS— TRAVERS AND 

 RENVERS— REVERSED PIROUETTES. 



In the old High School of horsemanship xh^ pirouette 

 was a movement in which the horse took its weight 

 upon the flexed hind-legs, with the fore-legs bent 

 very closely, and it turned upon the inner hind-leg 

 as a pivot. But this is now very rarely practised 

 even in la haute ccole, and its place is supplied by 

 the pirouette volte, in which the horse, a half-halt 

 being first demanded from some action, turns about 

 in a series of strides in which the inner hind-foot 

 treads upon one spot while the forehand is carried 

 about the croup. 



If the horse be faced in a certain direction, and is 

 turned so that, upon the inner hind-leg as a pivot, 

 it faces in the opposite direction, it has made a 

 demi-pirotiette volte. 



If the inner circle upon which the hind-legs pass 

 is of such a diameter that the croup is not prac- 

 tically a pivot, the movement is a wheel in travers 



