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fore-leg in walking. This will have the 

 effect of making the horse strike out, 

 often to the peril of his trainer, with 

 the fore-leg that has received the touch 

 of the whip. The transfer of power 

 to the spurs and the subsequent steps 

 in training, will be exactly the same as 

 described in the first method. 



A distinguished school-rider, who gave 

 me my first practical lessons in this 

 movement, made it his custom to teach 

 the horse, while at a halt, to give or 

 extend his fore-leg at the whip taps 

 applied below the knee, and as the 

 horse raised the leg the trainer would 

 seize and bear it up as high as he 

 could. Afterwards he had a groom to 

 walk backwards, facing the horse, and 

 as the trainer, walking by the side of 



