120 EQUINE LOCOMOTION. 



foro 1(\(^. Tn the cantor shown in Figs. 13T to ^ \y \\lii( li 

 Willi or willioiil a period ol suspension, is usually ic- 

 garck'cl as llic typiial canter (lie sn])ports arc tlic same 

 as (he loollails. In (he one ])ortrayc(l in Figs. I3<S lo 116, 

 ilie (liai^oiial suppoi I (oil h)rc and near liind, hiL;s. ij(), 

 I.(o, and 1.(1) does not al aiiv lime act unaided (^as in llie 

 oilier loiin ot canter, Mg. 133) ; hiil is assisted by the other 

 liind leg and the other lon^ leg in (inn. idiis smooth 

 style ol (.iiilei niij'^lil he (eiiiied Jo usc a popular ex- 

 pression) a hand ^(i//op. We may note (hat when llieK^ 

 is a ])eriod of suspension in IIh' canter, and also in the 

 gallop, it is obtained l)\ the tore-hand being raised by the 

 straightening of the leading h)re leg (and especially by 

 that ol lis letlock joint), as it cpiits the ground (Figs. 

 142 to I 11). 



The (ime (three) ol the moNcnienI shown in higs. 138 to 

 I4() is irregular; h)r the inleixal during which the sus- 

 pension takis place hetween the coining down of the luvir 

 lore and oil hind, is longer than either of the oilier I wo 

 intervals. Supposing that (he sj)eed is (he same, and that 

 there is the same interval of suspension in an irregular 

 canter ol this kind and in a tvpi<'al canter, (he former 

 would he less dislressiiif; (o (he horse (lian (he la((er; lor 

 (he wci^lil is l)e((er dis( lihtilcd in i(. The same remarks 

 a])])ly (o (lu> canlcr shown in I'igs. i.j/ (o 155, which is a 

 series, Iroiii plioto^ra|)lis, of an easy canter of a hif;h caste 

 Arab, in which the near hind is on tlu' ground when the 

 left diagonals come down (^iMg. J4()), and I hey are su[)])ortiug 

 the body when the off 'fore rcacdies the ground (I'ig. 151). 



We see, in the canter, that (he leading lore has more 

 work (o do (hail (he 11011 leailing lore leg. Jlence, if (his 

 pace he long coulinned, (he horse will oflcn change the 

 leading fore leg. 



The Gallop. This is a pace of four time, in which 

 the feet follow one another in succession, with an interval 

 of suspension hetween the coming down of the leading 



