The Changes in the Gallop. 



Although every work on Horsemanship gives 

 instructions for inducing the horse to make the 

 changes in the gallop, if anything is known of how 

 and when these changes take place, there is no 

 record of it in the books. The only writer who 

 has, to my knowledge, made any original remarks 

 upon the manner in which the horse changes in the 

 gallop, is the author of The Horse in Motion, who 

 suggests that there is but one mode of changing, 

 and that it takes place when the horse is in air. 

 But there can be no doubt that there are two modes 

 by which the horse changes lead, and I think that 

 I can show that neither of them takes place wholly 

 while the horse is free from the ground. 



That the horse can change by beginning with the 

 fore-legs is proved by the fact that the animal 

 frequently makes the change in the fore-hand while 

 the hind-legs keep in the old order. That it can 

 change by beginning with the hind-legs is proved 

 by the fact that the changes can be made truly at 



