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Nolan as useful for a cavalry horse. It is 

 certninly a smart way of turning about on 

 the haunches, and can be learned by most 

 horses with strong hocks, but whether it is 

 worth while to take up time in teaching it 

 is another matter. The Pirouette is not 

 merely a turn about on the haunches, but 

 a double turn about, bringing the horse 

 back to his original front. There are few 

 if any conceivable circumstances in which 

 such a movement would prove practically 

 useful to a mounted officer or soldier. 

 When a man on foot turns to the right 

 about, it is because something is to be done 

 by that change of front, but if he turns 

 right about and again right about without 

 a pause, it can only be for the amusement 

 of himself or somebody else. The deini- 

 pirouette, or the single turn about on the 

 haunches, would doubtless well repay the 

 trouble of teaching, and could not but be 

 regarded as a most useful accomplishment. 



ADVANCED TRAINING. 



In preceding to the further training of 

 the horse, it is, of course, assumed that 

 the directions already given (pp. 19 & 20) on 

 Saddling and Bridling have been duly 



