OBJECTS OBTAINED BY DIRECT FLEXION. 6z 



the more certain when the horse no longer dares to go up to 

 his bridle when moving forward, on account of the pre- 

 ponderance which the hand has on the legs, whenever the 

 animal wants to advance. 



Fig. 12. — Baucher's flexion when mounted. 



Finally, the work of making the horse go forward consti- 

 tutes the great difference between my system of equitation 

 and that of Baucher. 



My first lesson has been to make the animal go forward. 



In his Dictionnaire raisonn^e cT^qiutation (1833), page 112, 



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