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as new ones, because I can conscientiously 

 say that they never were practiced before 

 me. I have added then successively to the 

 manual of the horseman the following prin- 

 ciples and innovations : 



1. New means of obtaining a good seat. 



2. Means of making the horse come to 

 the man, and rendering him steady to 

 mount. 



3. Distinction between the instinctive 

 forces of the horse and the communicated 

 forces. 



4. Explanation of the influence of a bad 

 formation upon the horse's resistances. 



5. Effect of bad formations on the neck 

 and croup, the principal focuses of resist- 

 ance. 



6. Means of remedying the faults, or sup- 

 plings, of the two extremities and the whole 

 of the horse's body. 



7. Annihilation of the instinctive forces 



