QUOTES BY B.H.V. HOLLEUFFER (page two)
on the training in the Pillars

"Specifically, the work in the pillars allows to recognize quickly the talents with which nature has endowed the horse. It is the safest tool to reshape horses who are less talented either because of a flawed conformation or because of defects in individual parts of the body; to keep sound the ones that nature has endowed well and to bring them to the highest point of perfection; to give the horse an effective and beautiful position; to make the muscles, tendons and ligaments flexible and strong; to relieve the forehand; to lower the croup; to strengthen the back, to make it carry and swing; to develop regular, elevated, free, elegant and fresh gaits; to train jumpers; to render the horses attentive and obedient; to wake up the sleepy ones; to calm down the hot ones; to tame the angry ones as well as those who fight against leg, whip and spur aids; to create a safe rein contact as well as true lightness; to heal muscle lameness; in some cases to straighten out front legs that have become crooked; to reduce or even remove altogether windpuffs and steep pasterns; and to make some horses with spavin serviceably sound." ("Die Bearbeitung des Reit- und Kutschpferdes in den Pilaren", 1896; translation: T. Ritter)