38 SCHOOL' TRAINING FOR HORSES. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE PASSAGE. 



The passage is a kind of trot, of very 

 brilliant action in the highest possible 

 equilibrium. It is usually employed in 

 traversing, as the position in which the 

 horse is found at each stride is favour- 

 able to his balance in moving to the 

 right or to the left. 



In the passage the weight of the 

 horse, at each cadence of the gait, is 

 borne by a fore-leg and its diagonally 



