CHAPTER III. 



THE GALLOP. THE GALLOP CHANGES. 



I DO not put my horses into the gallop until 

 they have been thoroughly disciplined in the 

 walk and in the trot in the various forms of col- 

 lection. It is then a very simple thing to teach 

 a horse to gallop with true action in an even 

 cadence. 



In the gallop, a horse goes into air from a fore 

 leg in each stride ; it then plants the hind leg of 

 the opposite side, then the other hind leg, then 

 the fore leg of the side of the first planted hind 

 leg, and finally the remaining fore leg, from which 

 it again goes into air. In this pace, the legs of 

 one side take advanced steps in each stride, and 

 if these be the right legs, the horse is in gallop 

 right, and if they be the left legs the horse is in 

 gallop left; that is, in gallop right the horse 

 plants the left hind leg after going into air; it 

 then plants the right hind leg, then the left fore 



