50 EQUITATION AND HOKSE TRAINING. 



Increasing the gait from a trot on a circle furnishes 

 therefore the means of fulfilKng the two essential condi- 

 tions just cited. 



The aids to be used are both legs and the outside rein. 

 The two legs, by steadily forcing an increased gait, push the 

 horse into the gallop. A slight tension on the outside rein 

 prevents the horse from swinging the haunches out, and 

 consequently precludes a false lead or a disunited gallop. 



The circle is the best means to give the gallop lesson 

 when the squad to be drilled is rather large in numbers. 



Besides the advantages already enumerated, troopers 

 are enabled to work without interfering with each other, 

 in spite of the difference in speed which manifests itself 

 in the gallop of young horses. But if the number of 

 troopers working in the hall is limited it is possible to 

 secure the lead on the desired foot by increasing the gait 

 from the trot at the corner, or on the completion of a flank 

 movement, or at the end of a movement to change hands. 



The gallop must be attained at the moment the horse 

 begins the change of direction ; for if he does not relin- 

 quish the trot until the change of direction is completed 

 his haunches can easily swing out and the favorable oppor- 

 tunity is lost. 



