206 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. 



The simple mobility of the haunches is 

 one of the exercises that I have pointed out 

 for the elementary education of the horse. 

 We can complicate this performance by 

 multiplying the alternate contact of our 

 legs, until we succeed in easily carrying the 

 horse's croup, one leg over the other, in 

 such a way that the movement from left to 

 right, and from right to left, cannot exceed 

 one step. This exercise is good to give 

 great nicety of touch to the rider, and to 

 prepare the horse to respond to the lightest 

 effects. 



3. Passing instantly from the slow piaffer 

 to the precipitate piaffer, and vice versa. 



After having brought the horse to dis- 

 play great mobility of the legs, we ought 

 to regulate the movement of them. It is 

 by the slow and alternated pressure of his 

 legs that the rider will obtain the slow piaffer. 

 He will make it precipitate by multiplying 



