THE TROT 



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until it is sometimes much in advance of its lateral 

 fore foot, the former, however, being gradually low- 

 ered, while the latter is being raised. The right hind 

 and both fore legs are now much flexed, while the left 

 hind is stretched backwards to its greatest extent with 

 the bottom of the foot turned upwards, the left 

 fore leg is being thrust forwards and gradually 



SOME CONSECUTIVE PHASES OF THE TROT. 



straigntened, with the toe raised as the foot approaches 

 the ground; which accomplished, with a substitution 

 of the left limbs for the right, we find them in the 

 same relative positions as when we commenced our 

 examination, and one-half of the stride is completed. 

 With slight and immaterial diflferences, such as 

 might be caused by irregularities of the ground, these 



