A method of horsemanship : founded upon new principles: including the breaking and training of horses : with instructions for obtaining a good seat . PL. PL 8. Sinclairs Iiffi, LATERAL FLEXIONS ON HORSEBACK. 89 the curb^ what he has previously done withthe snaffle-reins ; but the snaffle should al-ways be employed first, its effect being lesspowerful and more direct. When the horse submits without resist-ance to the preceding exercises, it will provethat the suppling of the neck has alreadymade a great step. The rider can, hence-forward, continue his work by operatingwith a less direct motive
A method of horsemanship : founded upon new principles: including the breaking and training of horses : with instructions for obtaining a good seat . PL. PL 8. Sinclairs Iiffi, LATERAL FLEXIONS ON HORSEBACK. 89 the curb^ what he has previously done withthe snaffle-reins ; but the snaffle should al-ways be employed first, its effect being lesspowerful and more direct. When the horse submits without resist-ance to the preceding exercises, it will provethat the suppling of the neck has alreadymade a great step. The rider can, hence-forward, continue his work by operatingwith a less direct motive power, and with-out the animals being impressed by thesight of him. He will place himself in thesaddle, and commence by repeating, withthe full length of the reins, the lateral flex-ions, in which he has already exercised hishorse. Lateral flexions of the nech, the man onhorsehaclc.—1. To execute the flexion to theright, the rider will take one snaffle-rein ineach hand, the left scarcely feeling the bit; 8* 90 METHOD OF HORSEMANSHIP. the right, on the contrary, giving a mode-rate impression at first, but which will in-crease in proportion to the
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