304 SCHOOL BREAKING. 



which the majority of refusers adopt when they " run out " 

 at an obstacle, and when their riders vainly try to pull 

 them straight. 



Course of school instruction. — The foregoing details 

 of school training might be imparted more or less in the 

 following sequence, supposing, of course, that the horse has 

 gone through the preliminary work treated on in Chapters 

 V. and VI. 



1. Collecting the horse at the halt, walk, and trot, with- 

 out going so far as to obtain the passage or piaffei\ 



2. Circling and figure of 8 at the collected walk and trot. 



3. Turn on the forehand. 



4. Turn on the haunches. 



5. Passaging : change of hand and counter-change of 

 hand at the collected walk and trot. 



6. Circling at the passage at the collected walk and trot. 



7. Passage and piaffer. 



8. Collected canter. 



9. Starting in the canter from the trot, walk, and halt. 



10. Circling at the canter. 



11. Passage: change of hand and counter-change of 

 hand when cantering. 



12. Figure of 8 at the canter. 



13. Change of leg at the canter. 



14. Cantering falsely. 



15. Circling at the passage when cantering. 



If the turn on the haunches provokes the horse to rear, 

 we may correct such a tendency by practice at the turn on 

 the forehand (see page 293). 



