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GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Movements, quietness in, 137. 



Nervousness, 199. 



Obedience, 61. 



Obstinacy, 23, 104. 



OPPOSITE Rein or Spur, the 

 rein or. spur opposite to the 

 side to which the horse is 

 bent, or is to make the in- 

 creased action. 



PASSAGE, a trot in which 

 the legs diagonally disposed 

 step together, in an action 

 not so high as the Spanish 

 step. 



Passage, The, 127 ; method of 

 producing, 128 ; traversing 

 in, 165 ; method of travers- 

 ing in, 165. 



PATHS, the lines followed 

 by the feet of the horse in 

 any movement. 



Pawing, 33. 



Piaffer, The, 132 ; teaching, 

 132 ; its use, 133 ; its diffi 

 culty, 133 ; to back at, 136 ; 

 means for producing the 

 movement, 136. 



PIROUETTE, the movement 

 in which the horse, support- 

 ing himself upon the hind 

 legs, turns about, the inner 

 hind-leg acting as the pivot. 

 When the horse carries the 

 croup about the forehand, 

 the outside fore-leg acting 



PIROUETTE {continued). 

 as the pivot, the movement 

 is called the reversed pirou. 

 ette. 



Pirouettes, 143, 172, 176; from 

 the gallop, 178 ; before at- 

 tempting, 179 ; 180 ; lessons 

 in, 181. 



POMMEL, the bow or front 

 part of the saddle, that fits 

 over the withers of the horse. 



PORT, the bend in the mouth- 

 piece of the curb-bit made 

 to receive the tongue of the 

 horse. 



Rearing, 78, 80. 



Reins, The, 39. 



RESISTANCES, the opposi- 

 tion that the rider finds in 

 demanding any movement 

 from the horse ; these may 

 be active, or by the will of 

 the horse ; passive, or due 

 to the weights and conform- 

 ation of the horse. The 

 first are corrected by the 

 curb-bit and the spurs, the 

 latter by the snaffle and the 

 spurs. 



Riding, requisites for excel- 

 lence in, 13 ; learning from 

 books, 15 ; personal instruc- 

 tion in, 16 ; instructions for 

 ladies in, 20S. 



Rising in the trot, 65. 



