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the horse, in order to keep him in hand, and to be able to make him go forward at any moment.[1]
I have said that I carry the hands to the right in order to bring the shoulders away from the wall. The pressure of the left rein on the neck should be the only means employed to bring the shoulders to the right, and it should cease the moment the shoulders leave the wall, under pain of stopping the shoulders. We should instantly carry the hands to the left ; the left rein acting directly to its own side, and the right rein pressing, in its turn, on the neck to push the shoulders to the left. This is an effect of the left diagonal, The left rein, by lightly drawing the forehand to the left,[2] prevents the hind quarters from going in advance of the fore hand. In " two tracks," the haunches are always inclined to go in front of
Fig. 53.—Germinal at the canter: shoulder-in ; going from right to left. This is the second period of the canter, and the right diagonal is in support. The right hock is about to be extended, and the near fore has not yet come down.
Fig. 54.—Germinal at the canter : shoulder-in ; going from left to right. Left diagonal in support.
Fig. 55.—Germinal shoulder-in at the canter ; going from left to right in complete rassembler. We will note that the horse gains less ground, and especially, that the canter of the rassembler is in four time, namely, near hind, off hind, near fore, off fore. In Fig. 55, the off hind has just been put down after the near hind, and the near fore—which, in the ordinary canter, would be put down at the same time as the off hind, so as to make the third time, namely the left diagonal in support—has not yet been put down. This canter is therefore in four time. It should be noted that there is a moment when the off hind and near fore, which form the left diagonal, are in support at the same time ; but what makes the four time is the fact that the off hind precedes a little the support of the near fore. ↩︎
For a long time, like all riding masters since the time of Baucher, I bent the horse's neck to the side he was going ; but I found out that this was a mistake because nothing is more liable to stop propulsion. I now restrict myself to lightly inclining the head of the animal to the side he is going by only very slightly bending the neck. The rein of the side opposite to which he is moving can then have its full effect to push the fore hand, to keep the horse straight, and to secure the maximum amount of propulsion, by its combination with the other rein and with the legs. ↩︎