PASSAGE. 



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We have on rare occasions, in jumping, extreme extension 

 of the neck. 



Passage. — Having- no more suitable term to express the 

 artificial pace under consideration, I am forced to employ the 

 French word, passage, that signifies a short and very high 

 trot in which each fore limb, in its turn, when it is raised to 

 its highest point, is poised in the air for an instant, and is 



Fig. 106.— The Passage. 



bent at the knee and fetlock. It may be called the prelude 

 to the piaffer {see p. 94), and is an air de manege (high 

 school pace). The " passage " of the English military riding 

 school is a movement [a deux pistes) by which ground can be 

 taken to the right or left without the rider being obliged to 



