MODERN RIDING. 



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turn your body out, and this posture, carry- 

 ing the hand out, shortens the inner rein, and 

 confines the croupe. This aid is so much 

 better, because, if executed with delicacy, it 

 is imperceptible, and never alarms the horse. 

 In order to make the hand and leg work to- 

 gether, it is necessary that the motion should 

 proceed from the horseman's hip, which, in 

 turning, carries with it the rest of the body 

 insensibly : without this, very far from being 

 assisted by the balance of your body in the 

 saddle, you would lose it entirely, and, toge- 

 ther with it, the gracefulness of your seat. 



II. An air performed on a circle is called 

 a Volt ; and consequently the half circle is a 

 Demi- Volt. 



The change by the Demi-Volt is effected, 

 when working to the right, as from A to B, — 

 Plate XII. Figure 2. At B you quit the line, 

 and work on a Demi-V olt, which brings you 

 to the point C, at which place you change 

 and work to the left. In changing again from 



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