74 KIDING AND TEAINHifG SADDLE-HORSES. 



"When he will go quietly in the snaffle, and has been 

 made familiar with the usual sights and sounds of the 

 road, he may be put into the double-reined bridle. The 

 snaffle will be used to regulate the hight of the head, and 

 to begin the changes of direction : the bit will be used to 

 teach the horse to give the jaw and to bring in the head, 

 as before described. 



These bittings are never to be abandoned, and they 

 must be daily practised, so that the horse will yield to 

 the first demand of the bit. 



When the horse is obedient to the bit he should be 

 made to collect his forces in equilibrium, and he is 

 then prepared for schooling in those higher branches of 

 his education that are to make him, what is so highly to 

 be desii-ed, a trained horse. 



By firmness and gentleness the horse can, by means of 

 the system already explained, be readily made quiet to 

 ride. If he becomes shy it will be because his vision is 

 defective. A young horse, properly treated, will acquire 

 so much confidence in his master that he will face objects 

 about which he has grave suspicious. Each time that he 

 finds his teri'or groundless, his fear of strange objects 

 will be lessened, and some horses, trained in this way, 

 will shy at nothing when under the saddle. 



Pirouettes. — The precision with which the pirouettes 

 are made, will determine the grace and facility with which 

 the horse will execute all movements. 



Pirouettes on the Forehand. — The horse, saddled 

 and bridled, will be taken to some retired spot. The 

 riding-school is, of course, the best place for these lessons. 



