MODERN RIDING. 



Ill 



you are turning the horse, is to be placed 



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back, but not to touch, lest you should throw 

 the croupe out. The outer leg must be 

 ready to stay the croupe, if it has such a 

 propensity. 



Section IV. — Of Changes and Demivolts in the 



Walk. 



L A change is no more than the altering 

 the hand to which you were going, or the 

 foot with which you were leading; but this 

 being done by different tracks or modes, and 

 in several actions, gives corresponding names 

 to them. 



The long change is crossing the riding 

 house in a diagonal line, the whole length of 

 the house. In this, when you are working to 

 the right, you quit the wall at Figure 1, and 

 cross to Figure 3 ; or quit the wall at Figure 

 3, and cross to Figure 1;, by which you 

 change the hand to which you were going. — 

 Plate XI. Figure 1. In like manner when 

 working to the left, and you would change to 



