136 MODERN HORSEMANSHIP. 



will be turned so that the thumb points to the 

 ground over the left shoulder of the horse, and it 

 should then be carried to the left, so that the right 

 rein will take a tension with the right side of the 

 horse's neck intervening. 



While upon single direct lines in the united trot, 

 the horse should be practised in the reversed pir- 

 ouettes from action. 



If, in the united trot, the horse be passing upon a 

 sinofle straio-ht line, and it be desired to move in the 

 opposite direction, the rider will bring the animal 

 to the half-halt, bend the head slightly to the right, 

 and fix the forehand in place, while his left leg 

 carries the croup about to the right in the beat of 

 the trot : when the reversed pirouette is so far made 

 that the horse faces in the new direction, the animal 

 will be put straight, the balance between the forces 

 be resumed by a reduced tension upon the reins and 

 by demanding renewed impulses from the croup 

 (which must be met and measured by the hand), and 

 the horse will go back upon the path by which it 

 came in the same form of trot, without having grown 

 heavy or disunited. The reversed pii^ouette left will 

 be made in a similar manner, by carrying the croup 

 about to the left, the head bent to the left. 



