should also, by our seat, be able to feel the slightest movements of the hind quarters, for we learn by our seat what passes under us. Consequently, we can check the slightest fault, and immediately reward the faintest sign of good will. This is the entire secret of breaking.

Further, the riding master who breaks a school horse, acts alone, and depends only on himself. Every fault committed and every good movement done are his work. This is true, only in the school.

The racehorse, to mention his case only, passes through many hands, such as those of trainers, riding lads, and jockeys, and if the animal commits a fault with any of them, the man can put it down to his next-door neighbour. Only the school horse is the exclusive work of the person who broke him. Count d'Aure replied one day to a criticism of Baucher that, " I am not a horse breaker." Then, what did he break ? Did the word breaker jar on his ears ? For my part, I know no other. Of course we should not regard in the same light the horseman who breaks a horse in good style, as the groom who takes the rough edge off him, and I venture to say that no one can be a real horseman, if he cannot break-in a horse. Breaking is the horseman's touchstone. The broken horse is the proof of the breaker.