MODERN RIDING. 



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greatest delicacy, lest you should throw the 

 croupe too much to the left, and reverse the 

 disorder instead of correcting it. 



It is to be observed, that, in reining back, 

 the hand and the heel change their func- 

 tions ; that is, the hand compels the action, 

 and the heel directs it. 



This operation ought to be performed very 

 slowly at first, and only two or three steps at 

 a time. 



