trotting, cantering, turning, reining back, and moving from one side to the other for a few steps, I begin to take them outside, and they will then need only a few days to make them pleasant to ride in the open. In this way, I first of all make them into hacks. During the following two or three months I repeat, in the open air, the work which my horses have learned in the school, so as to make them light and supple in their natural paces. Thus, from September to the end of December, nothing but care and repose ; from January to March, breaking in the school ; from April to June, confirmation, outside, of the work learned during the preceding months. In July I send my horses for their holiday to grass, leave them loose in the fields, and give them oats.

In August I resume work in the open, and as the animals have rested and got strong, I begin at the same time high school riding. My horses being handy, light and well balanced, their progress is rapid, and I generally finish their school training towards the end of December, with a limit of two or three months one way or the other, according to the difficulties which I have to overcome and the extent of the instruction. I then give them another holiday of a fortnight and immediately after that I take them out hunting if possible. I do not consider their education complete until I have tested them in all these ways.

In this manner I obtain an excellent hack for spring and summer, a hardy hunter for autumn, and a pleasant school horse for winter.

FEEDING.

I feed my horses liberally, especially as regards oats, of which I give them 10 quarterns a day. This makes them lively, but not more so than I wish. I give them only a small quantity of oats in the morning, so as not to overload their stomachs ; but I allow them all they can eat in the evening,