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A PERFECT Paffade is made in this Manner. — Your Horfc 

 Handing ftrait and true upon all his Feet, you go ofF with 

 him at once, you flop him upon his Haunches ; and in the 

 fame T'iine or Cadence in which he made his Stop, being 

 exaflly obedient to the Hand and Heel, he ought to make 

 the Demi-volte, balancing himfelf upon his Haunches, and 

 fo waiting till you give him the Aid to fet ofF again »• It is 

 requifite then that the lead Motion or Hint of the. Rider 

 fhould be an abfolute Command to the Horfe. — If you would 

 have him go off at full Speed, yield your Hand, clofe the 

 Calves of your Legs upon him ; if he don't anfwer to this 

 Aid, give him the Spurs, but you muft give them fo as not 

 to remove them from the Place where they were, and without 

 opening or advancing your Legs before you ftrike». 



The high Paffades are thofe which a Horfe makes, when, 

 being at the End of his Line, he makes his Demi-volte in 

 any Air he has been taught, either in the Mezair or in Cu?'- 

 vetSj which is very beautiful. — Therefore in high Pafiades 

 let your Horfe go off at full Speed ; let your Stop be fol- 

 low'd by three Curvets; let the Demi- volte conlifl: of the 

 fame Number, and demand of him three more before he fets. 

 off again. — It is ufual to make nine Curvets when you work. 

 a Horfe alone and by himfelf.. 



The furious or violent Paffades, are when a Horfe gal- 

 lops at his utmoft Speed ftrait forward, and makes his, 

 half Stop, bending and playing his Haunches two or three 

 times, before he begins his Deir.i-volte, which is made 



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