54 SCHOOL-TRAINING FOE HOESES. 



stituted. But there can be no good 

 reason for adopting a false method by 

 which to teach a movement if a horse 

 can be taught by the proper method 

 from the beginning. 



If the horse is lightened in front by 

 a play of the bit, he may be lightened 

 more upon one side than upon the 

 other by the increased action of the 

 bit upon that side ; and by this method 

 the horse may be trained to gallop by 

 the use of the same means that shall 

 be used to make him perform the 

 movement after he has been trained. 

 I have employed the rule founded 

 upon this theory with complete success, 

 not only in teacliing the gallop, but in 

 schooling for all those movements re- 

 quiring the lightening of one side of 



