THE SPANISH TROT. 163 



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 move- 

 ment, 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 the moving horse, made him raise 

 each fore-leg in turn, the groom caught it 

 in his hands and bore it up for a moment, 

 and then dropped it to treat the other fore- 

 leg in the same way. 



