Experiments and their Verification 



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The principal deviation of her gait from the general standard is the 

 crossing over of her front legs. It was an ingenious device to avoid 

 interference, but it is hard to tell whether this was due to her intuition 

 or to a fortunate structural adjustment in her speed mechanism. We 

 may, now and then, find such a mode of locomotion with other trotters, 

 but are more likely to observe that the hind feet follow the fore feet, 

 or nearly so. The trotting or pacing motions usually proceed on straight 

 lines, and in subsequent trials, here shown or alluded to, the line trot 

 and its approximation should always be considered as the usual loco- 

 motion of the trotter. 



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 'foe bars, tilted to right- 

 flush a//o<?5 



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at heels 



foes = J in 

 52+ t(nee/sj 52 

 htels of equal lenyth . 

 Stride - /S.84- (on stretch ) 

 Stride. - /S.27 (on turn ) 



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at heels of heels 



52 + / (heeb) S2 



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foes - J* // 

 Stride, = 16 II (onsfrerch ) 



The subject to be discussed in this matter of taking the turns of 

 the track was a standard bred mare by McKinney with good trotting 

 action and fair speed. Being owned by me she was in my complete 

 control, and I was, therefore, not subjected to another man's limit of 

 time or of patience. This mare, like many other good trotters, re- 

 sponded well to all changes of adjustments, and it was always more of 

 a pleasure than a task to work out the results of her trials. 



Shod, as given in Fig. 95, this mare was able to take the turns 

 much better than before. This shoeing was one in a series where slight 

 changes were made in order to ascertain the results of these change^. 

 To understand the effect of the change indicating an improvement in 



