76 EIDING AND TRAINING SADDLE-HORSES. 



the trainer should again show his satisfaction hy a kind 

 word or a touch of the hand. Let these proceedings be 

 continued until the horse steps off promptly : but he 

 should not, at first, take more than one step at a time, 

 and must never be permitted to volunteer a movement. 

 After each change of position he is to be put straight, 

 and he will be kept collected by the hand and whip. 



The same means, right and left being interchanged, 

 will teach him to pass in the opposite direction. 



These lessons should be repeated at intervals, so that 

 they are not rendered irksome or fatiguing to the horse, 

 until he will complete his circles, either way, without 

 taking up the pivot, or outside foot. 



These pirouettes will now be made with the rider in the 

 saddle ; and if the work on foot has been faithfully per- 

 formed the horse will be well advanced in his education. 



Bringing, the horse into equilibrium, the rider will 

 play with the right rein of the curb to destroy the resist- 

 ances of the shoulder, and with his left leg will make the 

 horse carry the croup one step to the right. The right 

 leg of the rider will be held close to the side of the horse, 

 to limit the movement to one step, to prevent him mov- 

 ing backward, and to assist the off fore-leg in taking its 

 place in the new position. Taking one step at a time, 

 the horse will complete the movement about the near or 

 outside fore-leg, which has been the pivot. 



By inverse means, and observing the same care, the re- 

 versed pirouette will be made to the left. 



"When the horse will make the circle by the one step 

 and the stop, with ease and without assistance, he will be 

 made to complete the pirouettes without the stop, step by 



