CHAPTER II. 

 ORDINARY RIDING. 



Lunging a Horse — Close work, advancing — Collecting a Horse and direct Flexion 

 — Objects to be obtained by direct Flexion — Making a Horse quiet to mount 

 — How to hold the Reins — Teaching a Horse by the Whip to obey legs and 

 spurs — Horse mounted, first Defences, means for overcoming them — The 

 Walk — To halt and stand still — Changes of Direction— Lateral flexions — 

 Objects of Lateral flexions — Rotation of the Croup and Shoulders —School 

 Walk — The rein back — The ramener, collection, rassembhr, and equestrian 

 tact — Side steps and two tracks — The trot — The canter — Voltes and demi 

 voltes at the canter — Changes of leg — The Hack. 



LUNGING A HORSE. 



I WORK all horses in the same manner. The animal which 

 is to be broken being brought into the school saddled and 

 bridled, I pass the reins of the curb and snaffle through the 

 throat-latch, so that the horse may not catch them with his 

 feet. I then buckle a lunging rein to the left ring of the 

 snaffle and let the horse walk at ease. 



For every lesson the horse should have flannel bandages 

 on his forelegs, from the fetlock to the knee, so as to sup- 

 port the flexor tendons and to guard the horse from getting 

 splints which are often caused by a green horse hitting 

 himself. 



Immediately after the lesson I take the bandages off the 

 forelegs and put them on the hind ones, and leave them on 

 for three or four hours, which period is sufficiently long to 



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