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PRINCIPLES OF 



P. V. 



instance, he stops by compulsion ; but, when 

 practice has brought him to obedience, he 

 readily stops at the easy throwing back of 

 the body. In rapid action, the body being 

 gently thrown back, will not make the action 

 instantaneously cease ; but the obedience of 

 the horse makes the effort, which checks half 

 his career in the first cadence, and the body 

 still being kept back, he completes it in the 

 second. 



3. The half Stop is a pause in the gallop, 

 or the action suspended for half a second, and 

 then resumed again. 



Now, the difference in performing the half 

 Stop is throwing the aid of the body back, 

 not so determinately, lest you should there- 

 by so overbalance the horse that he cannot 

 readily set off again without moving his legs 

 after the finish of the cadence ; for the ca- 

 dence is no sooner finished than the body is 

 to come forward, to permit the action to go 

 on : so that the half Stop is only a pause in 



