exercises, and by rational training, and consequently he ruled his horse by preventing him using these forces in his own way.

Finally, a horse can always escape from strength by strength, in which case the rider will soon be exhausted. Therefore the rider ought always try to prevent the horse knowing his own strength, so that he may hinder him from using it against himself. He can do this by feeling and divining in advance the intentions of the animal. A rider who has tact foresees the defences of his mount, feels them coming, and wards them off before the animal can make them.

Baucher, after having passed his life in breaking horses such as Partisan, Buridan, Capitaine, Stades, and others, complains that his horses were not always light in hand during changes of direction. The reason which he gave was that, with his way of working, he obtained only equilibrium of the second kind, which I call "imperfect equilibrium" or "incomplete rassembler." According to him, "equilibrium of the first kind," which I call "perfect equilibrium" or "complete rassembler," is obtained by using the hands without the legs, or the legs without the hands. But in this, Baucher seriously deceived himself, because the fact of his finding "equilibrium of the first kind " towards the end of his career was due to the elevation of the head and neck, which he finally adopted at a time when he was no longer able to ride. He was not able to obtain the complete rassembler by placing the head and neck of his horses in the way he used to do. The head was too low, and the neck was bent in the middle. Therefore it frequently happened that his horses were badly balanced.

It is simply absurd to say that the "complete rassembler" can be obtained by the hands without the legs, or by the legs without the hands.

We read on page 82 of the fourteenth and last edition of Baucher's book that " my method places the horse so much