TO BACK WITH A HALT. Ill 



bearing upon this part with the hand and leg. The leg 

 of the rider placed on the converging side, will only act 

 daring this time so as to carry the forces forward, in 

 order to prevent the hand producing a retrograde effect. 



1 4. To back with a halt at each step, the right leg of 

 the horse remaining in front motionless and held out at 

 the full distance that the left leg has passed over, and 

 vice versd. 



This movement depends upon the nicety of touch of 

 the rider, as it results from an effect of forces impossi- 

 ble to specify. Though this performance is not very 

 graceful, the experienced rider will do well to often 

 practise it, in order to learn to modify the effects of 

 forces, and acquire all the niceties of his art in perfec- 

 tion. 



15. HegulsLY piaffer with an instant halt on three legs, 

 the fourth remaining in the air. 



Here, also, as for the ordinary pirouettes upon three 

 leo-s, it is by exercising the piaffer and the flexion of one 

 leg separately, that we will succeed in uniting the two 

 movements in one. We will interrupt the p)iaffer by 

 arresting the contraction of three of the legs so as to 

 leave it in one only. It is sufficient, then, in order to 

 accustom the horse to this performance, to stop him 

 while he is piaffing^ by forcing him to contract one of 

 his legs. 



16. Change of feet every time at equal intervals, the 

 horse remaining in the same place. 



This movement is obtained by the same proceedings 

 as are employed for changing feet every time while 

 advancing ; only it is much more complicated, since we 

 must give an exact impulsion sufficiently strong to deter- 

 mine the movement of the legs without the body 

 advancing. This movement consequently demands a 



