158 MODERN HORSEMANSHIP. 



which the whip has acted. These lessons will be 

 continued until the led horse will maintain the 

 Spanish March evenly and with vigour, the trainer 

 taking care that the impulses come well from the 

 croup, and that the diagonally disposed hind-leg is 

 not too much delayed, for the more perfect this 

 unison of action with the extended fore-leg the 

 better is the march performed. 



The rider will then mount, and transfer the power 

 of the whip to the heels. The horse being fairly 

 well united, the rider will press in the heel of one 

 side and tap the fore-leg of the opposite side, at the 

 same time giving a slight upward play of the rein 

 upon the side upon which the whip is applied. At 

 these applications of the aids the horse will raise 

 and extend the fore-leg that has received the whip 

 tap, and flex the diagonally disposed hind-leg : the 

 horse will then be pushed forward, so that the legs 

 that are in air may be well extended and planted, 

 and as the opposite fore-leg is about to be raised 

 the whip tap will be applied to the shoulder of that 

 side while the opposite heel is pressed in, and the 

 impulse met and the action supported by an upward 

 play of the rein on the side of the raised fore-leg. 

 The same thing will then be repeated with the 

 other pair of diagonal legs, and so on. Gradually 

 the use of the whip will be dispensed with, and the 



