60 EING-RIDING. 



the movement can be facilitated by starting the trot or gallop 

 as the turn commences. 



TO BREAK OFF BY TWOS. 



Plate 55. — Command : 



1. Twos right (or left), 2. March. 

 This is executed in the same manner as explained for the 

 single file. 



While passing through the ring in line, the guide being 

 by the right or left, there must be no pressing in the direc- 

 tion of the guide, but each rider must go straight forward. 



Plate 56. — To start into column of fours from in line, 

 command : 



1. Fours forward, Fours right (or left), 2. March. 

 At the command March, the four on the right flank will 

 move forward ; the other fours wheel to the right. The sec- 

 ond four, when its wheel is nearly completed, turns to the 

 left and follows the first four ; the other fours having turned 

 to the right, move forward and turn to the left at the same 

 point as the second four. 



This is executed by twos or threes in the same manner as 

 above. 



Plate 57. — Being in line, to form in column of twos from 

 the center of the line, command : 



1. Twos from center, 2. March. 

 At the command March, the two riders in the center of the 

 line move forward, while the rest will right and left oblique 

 as soon as disengaged, and in succession form by twos from 

 the right and left behind the preceding riders. 



Plate 58. — The class being at one end of the ring, to as- 

 sume the pyramid form from the center of the line, com- 

 mand . 



1. Twos from center, in succession forward , 2. March. 

 At the command March, the two in the center move straight 



