THE PASSAGE 



two, three, or four manifestations of the passage. 

 Stop. Caress. Take off the bridle. Carrots. Stable. 



The next day the same work, at the same hand. 

 Do not alter anything. Impress, engrave on the 

 horse's memory, these first foreshadowings of the 

 passage. 



During this early work on the passage, stay at 

 the side of the manege and do not try the center. 

 If you do, you will be sorry afterwards, for you will 

 send your horse's haunches to the right or left, in- 

 stead of having them straight. When the signs of 

 the passage become more marked, before asking for 

 the movement, attack the horse very lightly, with 

 the "delicate touch of the spurs' 1 of Gueriniere, or, 

 as I call it, "the honeyed attack." Do this always 

 at the manege walk, and ask the cadence by the 

 calves of the legs only. Obtain three or four steps. 

 Then let go. Begin again. Repeat this, at the ut- 

 most, no more than four to six times at each lesson. 



At this point, supposing that you have worked 

 properly thus far, I must especially advise that you 

 do not, under any conditions or circumstances, let 

 the horse take the cadence of the passage at its own 

 initiative. Let it do this only when you ask the ac- 

 tion by your diagonal effects. Be very sure of this. 



When progress begins to be marked, the time has 

 come for a change of hand at each success. Other- 

 wise the diagonal biped that has been nearest the 

 wall will develop more energy or more action. 

 Nothing must be neglected that will make for that 



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