When I say that I use a certain rein or a certain leg, I mean the leg or rein which ought to have the stronger action. During the entire work both reins should be lightly felt, and both legs ought to be kept close to the side. Continual co-operation ought always to exist between the hands and legs.

It is certain that a horse can rein back without the help of the diagonal aids, and that a rider who knows nothing about the principles which I have just enunciated, can make him do so. But he will never succeed in having his horse in hand, with the head high, as if he were going forward, the hind legs being raised as high as the fore ones, and, above all things, with the points of the buttocks not further to the rear than the hocks.^[1] We should thoroughly understand that these conditions are essential in retrograde movements.

THE " RAMENER," COLLECTION, " RASSEMBLER," AND EQUESTRIAN TACT.

Before going further, we may recapitulate as follows the results we have obtained : The horse carries himself very freely forward on the legs being brought close to his sides ; he correctly does the direct and lateral flexions of the jaw ; is well in hand ; yields immediately to the action of each leg ; easily executes the respective rotations of the haunches and shoulders ; and performs all the changes of direction with facility.

It must be well understood that during all the time my horse does these suppling exercises while I am on foot, I had also given him the same work mounted, and that I only seek by general effects to confirm and improve the results obtained on foot.

Respecting flexions and collection when mounted, I ought to remark that it is more easy to profit by acquired propulsion than to create it. By this I mean that, if I am at