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understood that I found myself on the dispositions of 

 horses in general. A horseman of any tact will soon 

 understand the modifications that he ought to make in 

 their application, according to the particular nature of 

 his pupil. Such a horse, for example, will require more 

 or less persistence in the flexions ; another one in the 

 backing ; this one, dull and apathetic, will require the 

 use of the spurs before the time I have indicated. All 

 this is an alFair of intelligence ; it would be to insult my 

 readers not to suppose them capable of supplying to the 

 details what it is elsewhere impossible to particularize. 

 You can readily understand that there are irritable, 

 ill-disposed horses, whose defective dispositions have 

 been made worse by previous bad management. With 

 such subjects it is necessary to put more persistence into 

 the supplings and the walk. In every case, whatever 

 the slight modifications that the difierence in the dis- 

 positions of the subjects render necessary, I persist in say- 

 inof that there are no horses whose education ouajht not 

 to be completed by my method in the space I designate. 

 I mean here, that this time is sufficient to give the forces 

 of the horse the fitness necessary for executing all the 

 movements ; the finish of education depends finally on 

 the nicety of touch of the rider. In fact, my method 

 has the advantages of recognizing no limits to the pro- 

 gress of equitation, and there is no performance eques- 

 trianly possible that a horseman who understands 

 properly applying my principles cannot make his horse 

 execute. I am about to give a convincing proof in sup- 

 port of this assertion, by explaining the sixteen new 

 figures of the manege that I have added to the collection 

 of the old masters. 



