236 Gait of the American Trotter and Pacer 



power necessary for speed. The initiative in speed is sometimes 

 taken by the fore, but the hind attend to most of the propulsion and 

 for that reason more often start an increase of speed, while the fore 

 more often put a check to speed. 



My notes of this trial show the first evidence of irregular time 

 beats between the pairs of correlated feet; that is to say, the off fore 



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nF-oh ~ 3.36ft. 



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and the near hind seemed to strike the .ground harder than the other 

 two feet. There was, so to speak, a premature fall of the off fore 

 and the near hind. Shortly after discussing Fig. 174 mention was 

 made of this peculiar limp in the rhythm of the trot. There seems to 

 have been a gradual increase of this irregular rhythm, and in a sub- 



