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hounds, or takes a ride in the park, 

 to move about at the traverse or to 

 exhibit the action of his horse in 

 the Spanish trot, but if he can make 

 his horse perform these movements he 

 will have an animal that is the safer 

 and pleasanter to ride, by reason of 

 his lightness and obedience. 



Nor do I see any grounds for the 

 principal objection against school train- 

 ing, that it decreases the speed of the 

 horse. It is true that in the balanced 

 movements of the manege the horse is 

 made to step short, both to retain the 

 balance in the direct line and to 

 enable the animal to make short and 

 sudden changes of direction. But to 

 enable a horse to carry himself in the 

 equilibrium of the school his every 



