A method of horsemanship : founded upon new principles: including the breaking and training of horses : with instructions for obtaining a good seat . REVERSED PIROUETTE. Ill haunclies yield to the pressure of the leg,the rider, to cause the perfect equilibriumof the horse, will immediately draw uponthe rein opposite to this leg. The motionof this, slight at first, will be progressivelyincreased until the head is inclined to theside towards which the croup is moving,as if to look at it coming. (Plate XIV.) To make this movement understood, Iwill add some explanations, the more im-portant as the
A method of horsemanship : founded upon new principles: including the breaking and training of horses : with instructions for obtaining a good seat . REVERSED PIROUETTE. Ill haunclies yield to the pressure of the leg,the rider, to cause the perfect equilibriumof the horse, will immediately draw uponthe rein opposite to this leg. The motionof this, slight at first, will be progressivelyincreased until the head is inclined to theside towards which the croup is moving,as if to look at it coming. (Plate XIV.) To make this movement understood, Iwill add some explanations, the more im-portant as they are applicable to all theexercises of horsemanship. The horse, in all his movements, cannotpreserve a perfect and constant equilibrium,without a combination of opposite forces,skilfully managed by the rider. In the re-versed pirouette, for example, if when thehorse has yielded to the pressure of the leg,we continue to oppose the rein on the sameside as this leg, it is evident that we willshoot beyond the mark, since we will be 112 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. employing a force which has become use-less. We must then establish two motivepowers, th
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