HOW THE HOKSE LEARNS 137 



Prom making him go repeatedly tlirougli a gi- 

 ven evolution at a given point in the riding school 

 the horse easily comes to believe that he is desi- 

 red to make it whenever he is made to pass along 

 that point, and when passing along that point he 

 prepares for it and wishes to make it. This may 

 be soon remedied by being intent on forestalling 

 -him and preventing him from going through the 

 evolution, making him continue straight on. Thus 

 he learns that in order to go through that evo- 

 lution in that place, he must wait until told to 

 do so by having the proper aids applied. 



These associations of 2)lace have the same 

 advantage when giving him instruction with the 

 lounge because the horse, from the place where he 

 has been made to go through a given evolution 

 has learnt his way and is not confused by the 

 various aids given him witli the lounge for tlie 

 pui'pose of improving the position of his bod}' or 

 maintaining it in a good position. With the lounge 

 and with the whip he soon learns the evolutions 

 which he is made to go through in the riding 

 school, because they are constantly carried out at 



