174 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



VII. 



OF THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE FORCES OF THE 

 HORSE BY THE RIDER. 



( Continuation.) 



Of the gallop. I have said that, until 

 now, the greater part of the resources of 

 horsemanship have not been understood ; 

 and had I need of other proofs to support my 

 opinion, I would draw them from the errors, 

 the suppositions, and the innumerable contra- 

 dictions, which have been heaped together 

 in order to explain so simple a movement as 

 the gallop. What contrary opinions upon 

 the means to be employed to make the horse 

 go off with his right foot ! It is the support 

 of the rider's right leg which determines 

 the movement, one pretends ; it is that of 

 the left leg, says another; it is the equal 



