CHAPTER II. ORDINARY RIDING.

Lunging a Horse—Close work, advancing—Collecting a Horse and direct Flexion—Objects to be obtained by direct Flexion—Making a Horse quiet to mount—How to hold the Reins—Teaching a Horse by the Whip to obey legs and spurs—Horse mounted, first Defences, means for overcoming them—The Walk—To halt and stand still—Changes of Direction— Lateral flexions—Objects of Lateral flexions—Rotation of the Croup and Shoulders—School Walk—The rein back—The ramener, collection, rassembler, and equestrian tact—Side steps and two tracks—The trot—The canter—Voltes and demi voltes at the canter— Changes of leg—The Hack.

LUNGING A HORSE.

I WORK all horses in the same manner. The animal which is to be broken being brought into the school saddled and bridled, I pass the reins of the curb and snaffle through the throat-latch, so that the horse may not catch them with his feet. I then buckle a lunging rein to the left ring of the snaffle and let the horse walk at ease.

For every lesson the horse should have flannel bandages on his forelegs, from the fetlock to the knee, so as to support the flexor tendons and to guard the horse from getting splints which are often caused by a green horse hitting himself.

Immediately after the lesson I take the bandages off the forelegs and put them on the hind ones, and leave them on for three or four hours, which period is sufficiently long to