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make hirn walk backward as gracefully and as easily aa 

 forward. Bauclier considers tMs to be the best exercise of 

 all, and its proper performance to be the best test of the 

 borse's education. 



RECAPITULATION. 

 Stationary Exercises — the Trainer orh Foot, 



1. Flexions of the jaw to the right and to the left, using 

 the curb -bit 



2. Direct flexion of the jaw, and the depression cf the 

 neck. 



3. Lateral flexions of the neck with the snaffle and 

 with the curb. 



Stationary Exercises — the Trainer on Horseback, 



1. Lateral flexions of the neck with the snaffle and the 

 curb. 



2. Placing the head in a perpendicular position with the 

 snaffle and with the curb. 



3. Lateral movements of the croup, and rotation of the 

 croup and shoulders around the centre of gravity. 



4. Movement of the hind legs, and backing. 



THE PACES. 



The young horse, at first stiff and awkward in the use 

 of his members, will need a certain degree of manage- 

 ment for the development of his powers. We have bj 

 the preceding rules, acquired a means of acting on thr 

 separate parts of the horse's body. We must now facili 

 tate his means of action, by exercising his forces together. 

 if the animal respond to the aids of his rider, by the jaw, 

 the neck, and the haunclies ; if he yield by the general 

 disposition of his body to the impulses which are commu- 

 nicated to him ; if the play of his extremities be easy and 

 regular the entire mechanism of the animal will move 



