By suppling is meant overcoming the resistances of the horse, whether they be active or passive, intentional or physical, so that all opposition and rigidity are removed, and the animal becomes obedient and pliant in every part.
Much of the work in suppling the horse can be done far more quickly with the trainer on foot than from the saddle.
These changes are procured from suppling the horse.
It will be well for the rider to mount the horse in place, at this stage, and to conduct the suppling and bending exercises just described, from the saddle.
He did not see the good of suppling the various muscles of the neck, on which, nevertheless, depend to a surprising degree the balance of the whole body and the easy motion of the limbs.
The object of the practice is to give suppleness to the waist, freedom to the knee joint by well suppling the ligaments at the back of the knee, and at the same time to expand the chest.
This exercise should always be done slowly, as its object is the gradual flexing and suppling of the shoulder and elbow joints, and giving mobile action to those of the feet.
He should then instruct the lady to place her hands behind her waist, the right hand grasping the left elbow, as described in the suppling practices.
I proceed now to describe the suppling and extension exercises I have before alluded to.
There are a great many other suppling practices, but the above, varied occasionally by the use of the dumb-bells, will be found sufficient for all practical purposes.
To accomplish this, three months before the pupil is put on horseback she should begin a course of training in suppling and extension motions on foot, precisely similar to those drilled into a cavalry recruit in the army.
Bring the hands together in front of the figure, as in the second suppling practice, the points of the fingers joining, the whole frame erect and well drawn up from the waist.
By suppling the neck and the jaw, this hardness completely disappears.
The displacement and suppling of each part separately, being obtained, the chest and seat will be temporarily displaced, in order to teach the rider to recover his proper position without assistance.
It is only by the aid of a complete suppling and ramener that we succeed in so suspending the horse's body that the distribution of the weight is perfectly regular and the extremities acquire energy and activity alike.
I will now explain how the suppling of the hind-parts will be completed, by commencing to combine the play of its springs with those of the fore-parts.
We have practised this suppling on foot, it will be easy to obtain it on horseback.
When the horse submits without resistance to the preceding exercises, it will prove that the suppling of the neck has already made a great step.
By the methodical and separatesuppling of the jaw, the neck, the haunches, and the loins.
Why should the suppling of the haunches precede that of the loins (the reculer)?
It now remains for us, in order to complete the suppling of the head and neck, to combat the contractions which occasion the direct resistances, and prevent your getting the horse's head in a perpendicular position.
I at first considered the neck alone as the source of these resistances, and exercised myself in suppling the animal by flexions, repeated in every direction.
They consist in suppling the neck to get the horse in hand, and then, by the aid of the legs, and afterwards slight use of the spurs, in bringing his haunches nearer the centre.
It is here that we will be enabled to appreciate the good effects and the indispensable necessity of suppling the neck and haunches.
Never push your Lesson too far in hopes of suppling your Horse's Limbs by means of the Trot; instead of this you will falsify and harden his Apuy, which is a Case which happens but too frequently.
Properly speaking, you ought about this time to give Nelly a little side suppling of the neck, so as to make the parts respond readily to your will.
This suppling of Nelly's neck which you will give her on her daily ride is only of the muscles governing the direct up and down motion of the head and neck.
The result of the suppling of the neck is a soft mouth under all conditions.
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