24 WHAT SCHOOLING WILL DO FOR A HORSE. 



gently "sawed" from side to side' to make the 

 horse back, knows anything about collecting the 

 horse in the form that makes a retrograde move- 

 ment easy to the animal ? 



It is not worth while to continue the investiga- 

 tion of a book on nearly every page of which the 

 author shows his complete ignorance of his subject, 

 a work that nowhere exhibits the slightest know- 

 ledge of that ' union ' which made everything I 

 asserted regarding the horse I described in my 

 letter easy and credible. The instructions offered 

 in the columns of The Field, and for which its 

 Editor is responsible if he did not — which is in 

 most cases probable, from their nature — write them 

 himself, are no better than those I have extracted 

 from his book. In ' Answers to Correspondents,' 

 I found the following extraordinary piece of in- 

 formation : — ' If a horse's head is turned to the left, 

 he must of necessity advance his " off" fore-leg. 

 In cantering round a ring the same thing takes 

 place ; ' that is, in galloping in a circle, the horse 

 must lead with its outside legs, which would make 

 the animal false. In the same department I have 

 found other such absurdities ; for example — that if 

 the horse does not rear to a dangerous height, the 

 rider should do nothing; that the horse should 

 be struck upon the right shoulder to induce it to 



