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Position Selected as Typical of the American Trotter, all four 

 feet raised from the ground 



THREE MODELS OF THE HORSE IX ACTION 



These models, executed by Erwin S. Christman, one of the Museum's 

 staff of artists, are designed to illustrate the action of the horse in the 

 various phases of the walk, the gallop, and the trot, the latter still 

 awaiting completion. The models are all to the same scale, of one 

 sixth natural size, so that a contrast is afforded both of the differences of 

 size and weight and the differences of proportion. 



1. THE RACE HORSE "SYSONBY" 



This model is designed upon an extremely careful study of the 

 skeletal action and is based upon absolute measurements of the differ- 

 ent limb segments. It represents one of the extreme phases of the run 

 in which three of the limbs are folded and the fourth, in this case the 

 right fore leg, has just left the ground. The artist was assisted by an 

 instantaneous photograph of "Sysonby" and the former owner of this 

 great racer, the late Mr. James R. Keene, pronounced the model an 



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