326 ON BRIDLING 



neck, and body or when he perforins the other 

 movements required of him and indicated to him 

 by the various actions of the hands. 



The actions of the hands may be repeated many 

 times with a moment' s interval and as often as is 

 necessary to obtain tlie proposed effect but always 

 intermittently and not continuously so as to pre- 

 serve sensibility to the mouth of the horse and not 

 to incite him to use his head, neck and body to 

 defeat them. 



Only v/hen the horse goes collected and in good 

 leaning the action of the liands is continuous but 

 in that case it should cause very little discomfort 

 to liis mouth so that it may be easily tolerated 

 as if the horse experienced acute pain in the mouth 

 it Avould get injured or he would be excited to 

 make reactions or both effects might follow or the 

 mouth would become insensible. At the moment 

 when the horse is seized with fear we may hold 

 him with strong leaning and even punish him with 

 the hand in order to prevent him from turning 

 back but it should be done onl,y at that moment 

 and as an evil to avoid a greater evil. 



