136 HOW THE HORSE LEARNS 



same direction he acquires an association which 

 after some repetitions causes him to remember that 

 when he reaches the centre of the riding school he 

 ought to make the pirouette, and he prepares for 

 it himself and does it better. 



foreseeing that he must make a pirouette he 

 prepares his body himself and does it better, and 

 he is not confused by the various aids which are 

 given him for the purpose of securing his executing 

 it in a good position. 



Promptness in executing evolutions is learnt by 

 teaching him in this way and therefore by the 

 horse understanding beforehand what he is requi- 

 red to do from the aids which are given him iu 

 order to make him prepare his body for the various 

 evolutions, which he already knows, owing to ha- 

 ving made them many times. 



When he has learnt them he makes any evo- 

 lution in any desired place, because with the exe- 

 cution of each evolution he has associated the 

 various special aids which preceded his being put 

 through it, and the aids by which he was made 

 to execute it. 



