sleepy work on two tracks which we generally see in riding schools. I pay particular attention to demanding energetic work, and I keep my horse full of enterprise, which is the exact opposite of what is usually done. If my mount is enterprising, he becomes so on account of my legs having been enterprising in the first instance.

In sleepy work the horse obeys conditionally ; in energetic work he obeys without conditions ; he keeps nothing in reserve and he gives himself up to his rider, which is the first condition of equitation.

Figs. 41 and 42 show Germinal (a thorough-bred by Flavio out of Pascale) at work on " two tracks " at the school walk.

In Fig. 41, the horse begins by putting himself into position, at which he is perfect in Fig. 42. We can see how far the correct position is from the crossed position, which many riding masters adopt in work on " two tracks " ; the result being that they stop all impulse.

The impulse appears greater in Fig. 42 than in Fig. 41, because the horse, which is going on two tracks from left to right, was photographed at the moment when he rested his right hind foot on the ground, the right being the side to which he was going. In Fig. 41 (two tracks from right to left), the near fore foot, which forms the support, belongs to the side (the left) to which the horse is going.

A comparison of these two illustrations enables us to thoroughly understand the movements of the horse's legs during work on two tracks.

THE TROT.

To make a horse trot, we must begin by slackening the reins, and increasing the pressure of the legs a little. We ought to avoid striking him with our heels, which might upset him. But if he is sluggish, we may at first make him feel the heels, and afterwards the spurs, but only after a pressure