Q. What is the distribution of the forces and weight in the ramener?
A. The forces and weight are equally distributed through all the mass.
Q. How do we address the intelligence of the horse?
A. By the position, because it is that which makes the horse know the rider's intentions.
Q. Why is it necessary that in the backward movements of the horse, the legs of the rider precede the hand?
A. Because we must displace the points of support before placing upon them the mass that they must sustain.
Q. Is it the rider that determines his horse?
A. No. The rider gives action and position, which are the language; the horse answers this demand by the change of pace or direction that the rider had intended.
Q. Is it to the rider or to the horse that we ought to impute the fault of bad execution?
A. To the rider, and always to the rider. As it depends upon him to supple and place the horse in the way of the movement, and as with these two conditions faithfully fulfilled, everything becomes regular, it is then to the rider that the merit or blame ought to belong.