horse, which is all the greater because up to this time I have always trained him to go forward at the slightest pressure of the legs. We should keep him as quiet as possible and not insist too strongly, because the less a horse understands what is required of him, the more irritable does he become. We ought to be content with two or three steps to the rear, and immediately he has taken them, we should make him take the same number of steps forward, by relaxing the pressure of the thighs, and by touching him with the heel or spur. We should, above all things, avoid letting him rein back quicker than we wish him to do.

I sum up by saying that at first I close the legs and feel the reins sufficiently to bring about the rein back. Having obtained the retrograde movement, I hasten to pat the horse on the neck, and I repeat the work, while each time increasing the pressure of the legs, and diminishing the tension of the reins. Finally, when the horse has learned, little by little, what is required of him, I leave go the reins.

ROCKING THE FOREHAND.

In rocking the forehand, the horse raises his fore legs successively, without extending them, and rocks his forehand from one leg to the other, while separating them as widely as possible from each other, at the moment when they touch the ground.

Having taught the horse to extend his legs as already described, it is easy by this means to make him balance the forehand. With this object, his head and neck should not be raised too high, and his legs should only be half straightened, which I get him to do in the following way. The horse being halted, I make him raise the right fore, as if to extend it, but as soon as he raises it, and before he has completely extended it, I carry my hands to the right, and, consequently, all the weight of the forehand which was on the left leg is suddenly