We have now to convert the canter without gaining ground, into the canter to the rear, for which purpose, when my horse is cantering on one spot, with such ease and lightness that I have no need for the reins, I try to bring him back an inch or two by my seat and legs, and not by the reins. While my legs are raising the horse, I seize the moment when he is in the air to carry my seat back. I change the position of my seat, and not that of the upper part of my body, by taking nearly all my weight off the stirrups to put it on my buttocks. The mobility of the horse is so great, at a moment when he is in suspension,^[1] that a movement of the rider is sufficient to make him gain a little ground to the rear, which is enough to begin the canter to the rear. By repeating and gradually increasing these effects every day, we succeed in obtaining the canter to the rear as I have described. If we try to get the backward movement by the reins, the rassembler will be immediately lost, because the action of the reins will send the hocks a long way to the rear ; their duty, on the contrary, being to remain under the centre of the body. When they are to the rear, the hind quarters being over-loaded lose the mobility which enables them to gain ground to the rear.

NEW SCHOOL MOVEMENTS.

I have invented a certain number of school exercises, and will content myself by enumerating them. They are done according to the same principles and by means of the "aids" which have been used for the teaching of the preceding movements :—

I. New Spanish walk, which consists in making a step