CHAPTEK YIII. 



DIVISION OP THE WORK. 



I HAVE developed all the means to be employed in com- 

 pleting the horse's education ; it remains for me to say- 

 how the horseman ought to divide his work, in order to 

 connect the different exercises and pass by degrees from 

 the simple to the complicated. 



Two months of work, consisting of two lessons a day 

 of a half hour each —that is to say, one hundred and 

 twenty lessons — will be amply sufficient to bring the 

 greenest horse to peform regularly all the preceding exer- 

 cises. I hold to two short lessons a day, one in the 

 morning, the other in the afternoon ; they are necessary 

 to obtain good results. 



We disgust a young horse by keeping him too long 

 at exercises that fatigue him, the more so as his intelli- 

 gence is less prepared to understand what we wish to de- 

 mand of him. On the other hand, an interval of twenty- 

 four hours is too long, in my opinion, for the animal to 

 remember the next day what he had comprehended the 

 day before. 



The general work will be divided into five series or 

 lessons, distributed in the following order : 



First lesson. Eight days of work. — The first twenty 

 minutes of this lesson will be devoted to the stationary 

 exercise for the flexions of the jaw and neck; the rider 

 first on foot, and then on horseback, will follow the pro- 

 gression I have previously indicated. During the last 



