PRINCIPLES OF 



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the other. This nice discrimination is ob- 

 served only by those much acquainted with 

 horses. The suppling to both hands, capaci- 

 tates him to work to one hand as well as the 

 other; and in horses that have not been so 

 suppled, if chance or fatigue make them 

 change their leg for that which they are not 

 accustomed to, their action is stiff, confined, 

 irregular, and unpleasant. 



Section II. — Of the Kinds of Trot. 



There are three kinds of Trot— the extend- 

 ed, the supple, and the even. These depend 

 upon each other. In effect, you cannot pass 

 a horse to the supple trot, without having first 

 worked him upon the extended trot ; and you 

 can never arrive at the even and equal trot, 

 without having practised the supple. 



I. By the extended, is meant that trot in 

 which the horse steps out without retaining 

 himself, being quite straight, and going di- 

 rectly forwards. This, consequently, is the 



