For a young or green (inexperienced) horse, longeing is used to teach a horse to respond to voice commands and the trainer's body language, to accustom them to the feel of a saddle and bridle, and to begin their introduction to the feel of reins and bit pressure.
spoils system - the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power. system of rules, system - a complex of methods or rules governing behavior; they have to operate under a system they oppose; that language has a complex system for indicating gender.
On a national scale, the spoils system was inaugurated with the development of two political parties, the Federalists and the Democratic Republicans, and was used by the earliest Presidents, particularly Thomas Jefferson.he spoils system has, however, continued for many federal offices and is even more prevalent in state and local governments. See A. A. Hoogenboom, Outlawing the Spoils (1968); W. d. Foulk, Fighting the Spoilsmen (1974). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright Â© 2012, Columbia University Press.