102 NEW ilETIIOT) OF IIORSEMAXSHIP. 



Fourth lesson. Fifteen days of work. — After five 

 minutes being devoted to the stationary supplings, the 

 rider will first repeat all the work of the preceding les- 

 sons ; he will commence, with a steady foot, the 

 attaques,^ in order to confirm the ramener and p'repare 

 the rassembler. He will renew the attaques while in 

 motion, and when the horse bears them patiently, he 

 will commence the gallop. He will content himself in 

 the commencement with executing four or five lopes 

 only before resuming the walk, and then start again 

 with a different foot, unless the horse requires being 

 exercised more often on one foot than the other. In 

 passing from the gallop to the walk, we should watch 

 with care that the horse resumes this latter pace as 

 quickly as possible without taking short steps on a trot, 

 all the w^hile keeping the head and neck light. He will 

 only be exercised at the gallop at the end of each lesson. 



Fifth lesson. Fifteen days of work. — These last 

 fifteen days will be occupied in assuring the perfect exe- 

 cution of all the preceding work, and in perfecting the 

 pace of the gallop until we can execute easily changes of 

 direction, changes of feet at every step, and passaging. 

 We can then exercise the horse at leaping the bar and 

 at the piaffer. Thus in two months, and upon any 

 horse, we will have accomplished a work that formerly 

 required years, and then often gave incomplete results. 

 And I repeat, however insufficient so short a space of 

 time may appear, it will produce the effect I promise, if 

 you follow exactly all my directions. I have demon- 

 strated this upon a hundred different occasions, and 

 many of my pu2:)ils are able to prove it as well as 

 myself. 



In establishing the above order of work, be it well 

 * The use of the spurs. 



