this point, and I have no hesitation in laying down the principle that the mouth of each horse has its own peculiar degree of sensibility, no matter what is the pace, work, or distribution of weight.

Thus, I owned and broke to high school work the thorough-breds Redoubt by Parmesan, and Gant by Gantelet, out of Mlle. de la Romanerie, both of which had won races. I did not get them until they were five years old, and I made them remarkably good school horses.

Redoubt had a very light mouth, and could do the perfect rassembler almost without my having to touch the reins. Gant had a harder mouth, and required to have the reins drawn tightly, in order to do the rassembler to the same extent.

Riding them alternately, I went to the training ground behind Bagatelle, at a walk, trot, and canter, and observed, during these paces, the same difference of mouth which I had noticed in the manège, when doing the finest high school work.

Having brought them on the race-course, with the curb chain removed and the curb reins knotted on the neck, I sent them a short preliminary canter. Both of them quickly got into their racing position and speed. After that I sent them a full speed gallop of about five furlongs, and they performed in a manner which would have given no one the impression that they had not galloped for eighteen months ; but each of them showed in the full gallop the same difference of mouth which they had done in the riding school and when hacking.

During the gallop on the race-course, Redoubt pulled just enough to run well ; but Gant took a firm hold of the snaffle, pulled hard, and tried to run away. I easily stopped the former in a few strides, but I succeeded in pulling up the atter only at the end of a hundred and fifty or two hundred yards, and more by the voice than by the hands.

After the gallop, I walked them back to the stable to let them catch their wind, and as soon as I arrived, I made them