THE FIGURES OF MANEGE 



however, the horse makes the change of lead in the 

 course of the movement, these changes are made 

 without pause or change of gait. 



CONTRE-CHANGE OF HANDS 



CONTRE-CHANGE of hand is a figure of manege re- 

 sembling the square. After the horse has passed the 

 short side of the ring and has taken about ten steps 

 on the long side, the rider begins a diagonal change 

 of direction by the half-passage. Arrived at the 

 point, A, ten steps from the center, O, of the ma- 

 nege, the horse is put straight again for twenty steps 

 to B; and after that returns to the long side by a 

 half-passage at C, at the same hand as before the 

 execution of the figure. 



At the walk the figure is quite complicated if the 

 tempo of the gait is regular; but the trot is more 

 complicated, because of the difficulty in obtaining 

 the tempo and the regular number of steps. 



At the gallop, the difficulties are multiplied by 

 the three changes of lead. The rider being at the 

 right hand before the movement, executes the half- 

 passage leading to the right to A or B, at which 

 point the lead has to be changed from right to left 

 to execute the half-passage from B to C. Arrived 

 at C, the lead is to the left and has to be changed to 

 the right at C. Finally, the horse, now returned to 

 the right-hand lead, has to turn the corner at this 

 new hand, which is the same as that before the 

 execution of the figure. 



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