114 Modern Riding and Horse Education 



perfecting of bridles and of every form of adjunct 

 to riding threw the voice into disuse as far as 

 Europe was concerned. Like the movement of the 

 man's body, the voice is an indication independent 

 of the sensitiveness of the horse's mouth and sides, 

 and the animal who is trained to come to you, to 

 stop, etc., by word of mouth is generally more useful 

 than his uneducated brother. How far he can be 

 made to understand the voice is dealt with in the 

 section on the horse's mind. 



It was " correct " in the seventeenth century for 

 Haute Ecole riders to carry a whip in the full of 

 the right hand, point uppermost ; in this position it 

 was always ready for immediate use, and doubtless 

 helped to keep the horse up to the cruel bit of the 

 day. A whip should be quite unnecessary on a 

 trained animal unless he is by nature a slug ; but the 

 beginner on a quiet mount should generally carry 

 a whip or stick of sorts, not so much for use as to 

 save him the hard labor of trying to increase the 

 horse's pace, to which the mere sight of it will often 

 contribute. 



If the animal is inclined to " run out " on a par- 

 ticular side, showing him the whip on that side will 



