and gets them into hard condition, which is a truth that I have demonstrated by incontestable facts.

I imagine that men would adapt themselves much more readily to the kind of breaking I have described than to the violent exercises which they have to go through, and which discourages them, because they do not know the reason. Instead of interesting them in riding and inspiring them with love for horses, which should be the master feeling of a rider, they are often made to suffer through the horses, and the horses through them. People may say that my breaking is too elaborate. How is it, then, that it is not found to be too elaborate by Germans, whose dominant quality is certainly not elaboration ? Why do they work troop horses individually much more than they do in France ? Why do they begin by balancing them ? Why do they adopt rational breaking, instead of knocking up their horses ? Why do their horses last for a long time ? Alas ! the reason for this is that they have profited by the teaching which has come to them from France ; but in this classic country of riding we are kept back by routine.