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Finally, the horse comes up again on the hand when the impulsion communicated by the legs brings the hocks strongly under the animal's body and sends him freely on the bit, which is possible only when the horse is in hand to a maximum extent, which form of control is the rassembler. It is necessary that the tension of the reins is light enough to allow the propulsion to pass, but great enough to establish contact between the bit and the hand, and to give us the feeling that as the impulsion comes freely on the hand, we can dispose of it as we like.

As the neck in this case is necessarily high, and as the action of the horse is lofty, the meaning of the expression, " the horse comes up to the hand," is perfectly clear.

We can now understand what is meant by the horse being between the hands and legs, both of which send back impulsion to each other, so as to preserve equilibrium while going forward.

The school horse should be completely enclosed between the hands and legs ; and the hack should be in front of the legs and on the hands, so that he can lean a little with the bars of his mouth at fast paces. The horse which does not answer to the legs is behind the legs. He has too much weight on his haunches ; in other words, he is behind the bit.

Every horse is not capable of being perfectly rassemblé'd, which is the extreme limit of being in hand ; but every horse ought to be trained to get into hand with good equilibrium, no matter what may be the work for which he is required.

The hack, hunter, charger, and even the carriage horse, acquires a good position only by being got into hand, in which case the equilibrium is straight or horizontal.^[1]

It is generally thought that the object of getting a horse