108 NEW METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



6. Trot with a sustained extension ; the horse, after 

 having raised his legs, carries them forward, sustaining 

 them an instant in the air before replacing them on the 

 ground. 



The processes that form the basis of my method repro- 

 duce themselves in each simple movement, and with still 

 more reason in the complicated ones. If equilibrium is 

 only obtained by lightness, in return there is no light- 

 ness without equilibrium ; it is by the union of these two 

 conditions that the horse will acquire the facility of 

 extending his trot to the farthest possible limits, and 

 will completely change his original gait. 



1. Serpentine trot, the horse turning to the right and 

 to the left, to return nearly to his starting point, after 

 having made five or six steps in feach direction. 



This movement will present no difficulty if we keep 

 the horse in hand while executing the flexions of the neck 

 at the walk and trot ; you can readily see that such a 

 performance is impossible without this condition. The 

 leg opposite to the side towards which the neck turns 

 ought always to be pressed. 



8. Instant halt by the aid of the spurs, the horse 

 being at a gallop. 



When the horse, being perfectly suppled, will prop- 

 erly bear the attaqiies and the rassemhler^ he will be fit 

 to execute the halt upon the above conditions. In the 

 application of this we will start with a slow gallop, in 

 order to go on successively to the greatest speed. The 

 legs preceding the hand, will bring the horse's hind legs 

 under the middle of his body, then a prompt efiect of the 

 ^and, by fixing them in this position, will immediately 

 stop the bound. By this means we spare the horse's 

 organization, whicii can thus be always kept free from 

 blemish. 



