144 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



the forces of the two opposite extremities of 

 the horse, in order to make them harmoni- 

 ous, and induce regularity in their working. 

 The horse being thus placed, can bend and 

 extend his- fore and hind legs, before the 

 weight of the body forces them to resume 

 their support. 



The practice of this and some other prin- 

 ciples that I explain in this work, will place 

 in the rank of choice horses animals whose 

 inferiority caused them to be considered 

 jades, and which the old method would never 

 have raised from their degradation. It will 

 suffice, to accustom the horse to trot well, to 

 exercise him at this pace only five minutes 

 in each lesson. When he acquires the 

 necessary ease and lightness, he can be 

 made to execute ordinary pirouettes, as well 

 as the exercise on two lines, at a walk and 

 a trot. I have said that five minutes of 

 trotting were enough at first, because it is 



