STATIONARY EXERCISE. 381 



It is only by destroying the instinctive forces, and by sup- 

 pling the different parts of the horse, that we can obtain this. 

 All the springs of the animal's body are thus surrendered to the 

 discretion of the rider. But this first advantage will not be 

 enough to make him a complete horseman. The employment 

 of these forces, surrendered thus to him, will require both tact 

 and skill, which must be obtained by careful practice, and are 

 the fruits only of long experience. I will show in the subse- 

 quent chapters the rules to be observed. I will conclude this 

 one by a rapid recapitulation of the progression to be followed 

 in the supplings. 



Stationary exercise by the rider on foot. Fore parts. — 1. 

 Flexions of the jaw to the right and left, using the curb-bit. 



2. Direct flexions of the jaw, and depression of the neck. 



3. Lateral flexions of the neck with the snaffle-reins and with 

 the curb. 



Stationary exercise by the rider on horseback, — 1. Lateral 

 flexions of the neck with the snaffle-reins, and with the curb- 

 reins. 



2. Direct flexions of the head, or placing it in a perpen- 

 dicular position with the snaffle, and with the curb-reins. 



Hind parts. — 3. Lateral flexions, and moving the croup 

 around the shoulders. 



4. Rotation of the shoulders around the haunches. 



5. Combining the play of the fore and hind legs of the horse, 

 or backing. 



1 have placed the rotation of the shoulders around the 

 haunches in the nomenclature of stationary exercise. But the 

 ordinary pivot motions being rather complicated and difficult 

 for the horse, he should not be completely exercised in them 

 until he has acquired the measured time of the walk, and of the 

 trot, and can easily execute the changes of direction." — JBaucTv- 

 er's Method of Sorseraanship. 



I will only add here in relation to trotting and galloping 

 horses, and to the training of them, that it has been well re- 

 marked, by an able English writer on these topics, that no 

 animal when, in a state of nature, he desires to increase his 

 speed, goes at the top of any one pace, but adopts a moderate 



