134 MODERN HORSEMANSHIP. 



of the body of the horse with reference to the 

 parallel paths being observed. 



The changes of direction in the movements upon 

 two paths should at first be made upon circles of a 

 large diameter to insure perfect action and position, 

 but as the horse advances in its education these 

 circles may be occasionally diminished, and the 

 horse may be turned from ti^avers to rejivers by 

 wheeling it about in the manner of the pirouette 

 volte. For example, the horse being in travers left 

 in the united trot, it may be brought to a half-halt, 

 wheeled to the left — the bends being then proper 

 for the movement — until it crosses the paths in the 

 proper position for reversing the direction, and then, 

 before it grows heavy in hand, be made to resume 

 the trot upon two paths back over the line upon 

 which it has come. 



This united or shortened trot is performed in a 

 very high state of union and balance, the increased 

 action taking place under the horse, the pairs of 

 diagonally disposed legs working in perfect unison, 

 and the horse being supple throughout. In travers- 

 ing in this trot — and the same thing, of course, holds 

 ofood of rejwers — the leo- of the rider that demands 

 the movement should give the accentuated pressures 

 as the fore-leg of the opposite side is being raised 

 and extended, in order that the diagonal action may 



