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Alone wore practically no boots. She had only a heel boot in 

 front and an ankle boot behind. Lou Dillon likewise needed little or 

 no protection, a heel or a bell boot in front and a shin boot behind. 

 While the trotting mare exhibited a marvelous but not excessive action, 

 the pacing mare showed the action apparently best suited to that gait 



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rapidity and low elevation and while there was a highly developed 

 hock action in the trotting mare or an approximate equality between 

 fore and hind action, the pacing mare showed the more usual and less 

 elevated action of hock movements. 



The trot and the pace are built more or less on similar lines of 

 motion, and their comparison will reveal the fact that there are certain 



