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be obtained and sustained. That is, in traversing 

 to the riMit, the left leof of the rider should gfive the 

 accentuated pressures as the right fore-leg is being 

 raised and extended, so that synchronous action 

 of the left hind-leg may be secured ; and this will 

 insure unison of action between the other pair of 

 diagonally disposed legs. In traversing to the left, 

 the right leg of the rider will give the accentuated 

 pressures as the left fore-leg is being raised and 

 extended. The pace must be very slow to obtain 

 these requirements, and the rider's legs must not 

 act too vigorously, as we do not desire now to 

 obtain the passage action, but simply a brilliant trot 

 in perfect time. 



At first the snaffle reins must assist those of the 

 curb bit in demanding these movements upon two 

 parallel paths ; but the use of the formier will be 

 gradually dispensed with in the manner before 

 described : the indirect indications of the curb rein 

 being always preceded by a tension upon the direct 

 curb rein. That is, in bending the head to the 

 right to pass to the right, the bridle hand will be 

 turned towards the rider's right shoulder, to give a 

 direct tension upon the right curb rein, and then 

 . carried over to the right so that the left curb rein 

 will be brought against the neck of the horse : in 

 bending to the left to pass to the left, the bridle hand 



