Q. At what distance ought the spur to be placed from the horse's flanks before the attaque commences?
A. The rowel should not be farther than two inches from the horse's flanks.
Q. How ought the attaques to be practised?
A. They ought to reach the flanks by a movement like the stroke of a lancet, and be taken away as quickly.
Q. Are there circumstances where the attaque ought to be practised without the aid of the hand?
A. Never; since its only object should be to give the impulsion which serves for the hand to contain (renfermer) the horse.
Q. Is it the attaques themselves that chastise the horse?
A. No. The chastisement is in the contained position that the attaques and the hand make the horse assume. As the latter then finds himself in a position where it is impossible to make use of any of his forces, the chastisement has all its efficiency.
Q. In what consists the difference between the attaques practised after the old principles, and those which the new method prescribed?
A. Our predecessors (that we should venerate) practised spurring in order to throw the horse out of himself; the new method makes use of it to contain him; that is, to give him that first position which is the mother of all the others.