CHAPTER VII. 



FINISHING THE HORSE. 



A HACK or roadster may be considered as 

 sufficiently suppled for all ordinary purposes, 

 when he has learnt to go quite freely and col- 

 lectedly at a straightforward walk, trot and 

 gallop, and likewise to circle, passage and 

 rein back with perfect ease at a walk. Nor 

 indeed can an ordinary horseman, although a 

 good and scientific one so far as he goes, rely 

 upon his own possession of the delicate tact 

 which is necessary to make a horse preserve the 

 correct action of the trot or canter while work- 

 ing sideways, backwards or at the halt. I 

 think, therefore, that the subject of suppling 

 the horse, so far as it concerns all horses alike, 

 is exhausted by the preceding chapter. 



Indeed it will generally be thought, that in 

 saying this I am within the mark. There are 

 several descriptions of horse in whose educa- 

 tion the method of suppling recommended by 



