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able to the readiness, obedience, union, or 

 rapidity of the action. Should your opera- 

 tion be too feeble, the Stop would not be 

 effected, at least in a proper manner : if it 

 be too powerful, you overbalance the horse 

 on his haunches, and compel him to move 

 his feet after the cadence is finished, to re- 

 cover his balance. Besides, in these over 

 violent operations of the body and hand, you 

 risk the extension of the sinews behind, or 

 hurting the back and loins ; and therefore, 

 till horses are ready and obedient to the Stop, 

 it should not be attempted in too violent and 

 rapid gallops ; nor even then, if the horse is 

 weak, or the rider heavy, in which case, the 

 double arret is used, as being less liable to 

 injure the horse or shake the rider. 



m The double Arret is, the Stop completed 

 in two cadences of the gallop, which, in vio- 

 lent action, is far less distressing, both to man 

 and horse. The horse, till practised and 

 made obedient to the Stop, will not, however, 

 be handy at the double Arret ; for, in the first 



