OF HORSEMANSHIP. 117 



Remember when you clofe your Legs to make him go 

 forward, to prefs with the Outward in fuch a degree as 

 to keep your Horfe confin'd ; and to affift the other in 

 driving him forward ; it is not neceffary to lay fo much 

 Strefs on the inner Leg, becaufe that ferves only to guide 

 the Horfe, and make him cover and embrace the Ground 

 that lays before him. 



CHAP. XVIIL 



Of Curvets. 



OF all the high Airs, Curvets are the leaft violent, and? 

 confequently the moft eafy to the Horfe, inafmuch as. 

 they require nothing of the Horfe but what he has done before.. 

 In reality, to make him ftop readily and juftly, he has been 

 taught to take a good and true Apuy ; in order to make 

 him rife, he has been put together , and fiipported firm upon, 

 his Haunches^ to make him advance, to make him go back- 

 ward, and to make him ftop, he has been made acquainted 

 with the Aids of the Heels and Hands ; fo that in order to 

 execute Curvets, nothing remains for him to do, but to 

 learn and comprehend the Meafure and Time of the Air. 



Curvets are derived and drawn out of thePefades. — We 

 have already faid that Pefades ought to be made llowly, very 

 high before, and accompanied a little by the Haunches. Cur- 

 vets 



