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mistakes and prevents the scholar from forming- a clear idea of the les - 

 son. 



By going- on the right hand, we mean the motion in that direction, 

 ■which if the ring were round, would constitute a circle to the right 

 thus having the wall at our left. 



Going on the left hand, we have the -wall at our right. 



The inner side is the one toward the centre of the ring, the outer 

 side lies near the wall, except in the evolutions of contrashoulderin and 

 renvers, when the inner side, like in all schools, requiring a flexion of 

 head, neck, vertebral eolumn and haunches, is the concave side, the out- 

 side being the convex one, regardless of the position to the "wall. 



The same rule applies to the terms of inner and outer rein and inner 

 and outer leg of the horse, front or hind. 



PIROUETTE ON HINDHAND. 



The trainer now leads the horse upon the track, that is next to the 

 wall, and parallel with the same, on the right hand. 



The right rein is held in the right hand, the left one passed over the 

 neck and held as aforetold in the left hand, "which also holds the "whip, 

 the point of which is directed toward the lower part of the horses thigh. 



After erecting the horse's neck and head, the trainer begins to urge 

 the horse into motion "with the "whip, touching it on the spot indicated. 



Some horses "will rush f orward, others "will back, still others "will 

 kick "with one or both hind legs, all of "which is harmless and "will cease 

 after a few seconds, "when the horse understands that he is to go for- 

 ward. 



