2 2 WHAT SCHOOLING WILL DO FOR A HORSE. 



Editor who invites correspondence, to insult the 

 writer whose contribution he declines. But when 

 he takes his stand upon a doubtful experience, I 

 feel privileged to investigate his pretensions, and 

 certainly it is incredible that the Editor of The Field 

 should have had the experience in training horses 

 in the thorough manner he intimates in his note to 

 me, and he therefore had no right to question the 

 results of my work. 



The Editor of The Field is the author of a work 

 on horsemanship — Riding and Driving, by Stone- 

 henge, — which proves that his knowledge of riding 

 is of the crudest and most limited kind, for the 

 instructions it contains are about such that one 

 yokel would give another in taking a farm-horse 

 afield. In attempting to describe the passage on 

 two paths — which this experienced trainer misterms 

 passaging, as if the action indicated the side pro- 

 gress — he states, in his work on riding, page 49, 

 that it is a movement in which the horse advances 

 the two legs of the side towards which it is going, 

 and then brings the other two up to them. This 

 is absurd ; the passage is a trot, in which the 

 diagonally disposed legs move together, and the 

 author of Riding and Driving did not know the 

 action in one of the most important of the school 

 movements. He advises that the rider should 



