LATERAL FLEXIONS ON HORSEBACK. 89 



the curb, what he has previously done with 

 the snaffle-reins ; but the snaffle should al- 

 ways be employed first, its effect being less 

 powerful and more direct. 



When the horse submits without resist- 

 ance to the preceding exercises, it will prove 

 that the suppling of the neck has already 

 made a great step. The rider can, hence- 

 forward, continue his work by operating 

 with a less direct motive power, and with- 

 out the animal's being impressed by the 

 sight of him. He will place himself in the 

 saddle, and commence by repeating, with 

 the full length of the reins, the lateral flex- 

 ions, in which he has already exercised his 

 horse. 



Lateral flexions of the neck, the man on 

 hoi-sebaclc. 1. To execute the flexion to the 

 right, the rider will take one snaffle-rein in 

 each hand, the left scarcely feeling the bit ; 



