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For the fame Reafon making your Horfe launch out 

 vigoroufly in liis Trot, and quickening his Cadence from 

 time to time, putting him to make Pefades, flopping him 

 and making him go backward, will all contribute towards 

 his acquiring the Union. — I would define his going off" 

 readily, or all at once, not to be a violent and precipitate 

 Manner of Running, but only to confift in the Horfe's 

 being a little animated, and going fomewhat fafter than the 

 ordinary Time of his Pace. — Your Horfe trots, prefs him a 

 little ; in the Inflant that he redoubles and quickens his 

 Adlion, moderate and fhorten, if I may fo fay, the Hurry 

 of his Pace ; the more then that he prefTes to go forward, 

 the more will his being check'd and confin'd tend to unite 

 his Limbs, and the U7mn will owe its Birth to oppolite 

 Caufes ; that is to fay, on one hand to the Ardour of the 

 Horfe who prefles to go forward, and to the Diligence and 

 Attention of the Horfeman on the other, who, by holding 

 him in, llackens the Pace, and raifes the Fore-parts of the 

 Creature, and at the fame time diftributes his Strength 

 equally to all his Limbs. The Aclion of a Horfe, when 

 going backward, is diredly oppofite to his abandoning 

 himfelf upon his Shoulders ; by this you compel him to put 

 himfelf upon his Haunches : this Leiibn is by fo much 

 therefore the more effedual, as that the Caufe of a Horfe's 

 being dif-united, is often owing to the Pain he feels in 

 bending his Haunches. 



The Pefades have no lefs Effcd, efpecially upon Horfes that 

 are clumfy and heavy fhoulderVl ; becaufe they teach them 

 to ufe them, and to raife them ; and when they raife them 



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