Q. What do you understand by transmitted forces?
A. Those which emanate from the rider, and are immediately appreciated by the horse.
Q. What do you understand by resistances?
A. The force which the horse presents, and with which he seeks to establish a struggle to his advantage.
Q. Ought we first to set to work to annul the forces the horse presents for resistance, before demanding any other movements of him?
A. Without doubt, as then the force of the rider, which should displace the weight of the mass, finding itself absorbed by an equivalent resistance, every movement becomes impossible.
Q. By what means can we combat the resistances?
A. By the methodical and separate suppling of the jaw, the neck, the haunches, and the loins.
Q. What is the use of the flexions of the jaw?
A. As it is upon the lower jaw that the effects of the rider's hand are first felt, these will be null or incomplete if the jaw is contracted or closed against the upper one. Besides, as in this case the displacing of the horse's body is only obtained with difficulty, the movements resulting therefrom will also be painful.