THE CANTER 



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hind foot. Had the horse sprung from a right fore 

 foot, the right and left feet would have been reversed 

 through the entire series. 



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SOME CONSECUTIVE PHASES OF THE CANTER. 



THE GALLOP. 



The gallop is the most rapid method of quadrupedal 

 motion; in its action the feet are independently brought 

 to the ground; the spring into the air as in the canter 

 is effected from a fore foot, and the landing upon the 

 diagonal hind foot. 



The phases illustrated are selected from the stride 

 of a thorough-bred Kentucky horse, galloping at the 

 rate of a mile in a hundred seconds, with a stride of 

 about twenty-one lineal feet. 



The length of stride and the distance which the 



