CHAPTER X. 



SUCCINCT EXPOSITION OF THE METHOD BY QUESTIONS AND 

 ANSWERS. 



Question. What do you understand by force ? 



Answer. The motive power which results from muscu- 

 lar contraction. 



Q. What do you understand by instinctive forces ? 



A. Those which come from the horse — that is to say, 

 of which he himself determines the employment. 



Q. What do you understand by transmitted forces ? 



A. Those which emanate from the rider, and are 

 immediately appreciated by the horse. 



Q. What do you understand by resistances ? 



A. The force which the horse presents, and with 

 which he seeks to establish a struggle to his advantage. 



Q. Ought we first to set to work to annul the forces 

 the horse presents for resistance, before demanding any 

 other movements of him ? 



A. Without doubt, as then the force of the rider^ 

 which should displace the weight of the mass, finding 

 itself absorbed by an equivalent resistance, every move- 

 ment becomes impossible. 



Q. By what means can we combat the resistances ? 



A. By the methodical and separate suppling of the 

 jaw, the neck, the haunches, and the loins. 



Q. What is the use of the flexions of the jaw ? 



A. As it is upon the lower jaw that the efiects of the 

 rider's hand are first felt, these will be null or incomplete 



