FLEXIONS OF THE CROUP. 109 



animal imperfect, so long as the croup re- 

 mained dull, contracted, and rebellious to 

 the direct governing agent. 



I have just explained the simple and 

 easy means of giving to the fore parts the 

 qualities indispensable to their good man- 

 agement ; it remains to tell how we will 

 fashion, in the same way, the hind parts, in 

 order to complete the suppling of the horse, 

 and bring about a uniform harmony in the 

 development of all his moving parts. The 

 resistances of the neck and croup mutually 

 aiding one another, our labor will be more 

 easy, as we have already destroyed the op- 

 position of the former. 



The flexions of the croup, and making it 

 movable. 1. The rider will hold the curb- 

 reins in the left hand, and those of the 

 snaffle, crossed, in the right, the nails of the 

 right hand held downward ; he will first 

 bring the horse's head into a perpendicular 

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