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Thus he goes aside on every inclination of the 

 body on one side ; he traverses immediately on 

 more weight being put upon one stirrup and does 

 not wait for the hand and leg aid; he gallops 

 immediately on being bent in and raised, and does 

 not wait for the outside leg aid. Slackening speed 

 and stopping on horseback is always associated 

 with inclining the body backward, and the horse, 

 which has already observed this many times, has 

 understood that the inclining of the body back- 

 wards by the rider signifies stopping, and stops on 

 the body being inclined backwards without waiting 

 to be forced to stop by the hand. 



It is therefore not the horse who guesses the 

 intentions of his. rider but the rider himself who 

 reveals his intentions to his horse by his inadver- 

 tently-made motions or aids. This fact of the horse 

 foreseeing what he will be called upon to do is 

 good, because he prepares himself, but it is bad 

 when the horse anticipates and makes the evolu- 

 tions before the aids are given him by the rider 

 as in doing so he holds back and does not make 

 them in the fine raised position which would be 



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