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CHAPTER IX. 



SCHOOL BREAKING. 



General remarks on school breaking— The school horse — Collecting 

 the horse at the halt — Collecting the horse at the walk and trot 

 — Teaching the horse to strike off correctly into the canter — 

 — Changing the leg at the canter — Figure of eight at the canter 

 — Cantering falsely — Turn on the forehand — Turn on the hind- 

 quarters — The passage — The passage with head to wall — The 

 passage with tail to wall — Change of hand by the passage — 

 Counterchange of hand by the passage — Circling at the passage — 

 The halt — Change from one pace to another— Shoulder in — Course 

 of school instruction — Additional school movements — Extension of 

 a fore leg — The Spanish walk — The Spanish trot — ^Turn on the 

 forehand on three legs — The canter on three legs — Changes of 

 leg at the canter — A circus high-school act. 



General remarks on school breaking. — The necessity 

 for cavahy horses, whether acting in masses or singly, 

 being " collected " to an unusual extent, so as to make 

 them as handy as possible, initiated at an early period of 

 military history a special training for war horses, which, 

 while accomplishing irs own purpose, was obtained by 

 sacrificing to some extent their general usefulness. As in 

 early times the horseman was a mounted fighting man ; 

 the arts of breaking and riding were then cultivated from a 

 purely military point of view. By degrees the system of 

 breaking became elaborated from a means into an end, so 



