he entirely misunderstood this pace, the proof being that he never said with which leg the horse led or ought to lead.

Having broken Gant for a lady, I taught him the canter to the rear on the right leg so that the lady might be able to keep him at this pace with her spur, which is to the left. I have done more than this, for I succeeded in teaching the thorough-bred Germinal, by Flavio, out of Pascale, to canter to the rear either on one foot or on the other, according as I wished. I claim the honour to be the first to obtain this result. Whether a horse canters to the rear or to the front, the rider ought always to be able to say on which leg he is.

The canter to the rear with the near fore leading—although it is a pace of four time—ought to be made in the same way as if the horse was cantering to the front in three time—namely, first time, off hind ; second time, right diagonal ; third time, near fore. The great difficulty is to prevent the respective fore and hind legs being placed on the same transverse line. The off hind should be placed in rear of the near hind in order to preserve almost the same longitudinal distance between the two legs, as in the ordinary canter. I purposely say "nearly the same distance," because the strides are shorter. I need not add that the off fore should be behind the near fore, as in the forward canter.

We have seen that a stride of the canter consists of three times on the ground—namely, hind leg support, diagonal support, and fore leg support, as we see done with great precision in a good hunting canter, or what we call a hand gallop. But in the full speed gallop and in the canter without gaining ground, or the canter to the rear, which are the two extremes, the stride is in four time. In the canter to the left, for instance, the two legs which form the right diagonal, instead of touching the ground simultaneously, come down