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foot (forward action limited). (3) The right hind 

 (rear action limited).^ (4) The right fore (forward 

 action exaggerated) while in air, first the left hind 

 and left fore-feet will successively pass those of the 

 right side as the hoi^se rises, fulfilling their steps ; 

 second, the right hind and right fore will repass 

 those of the left side as the Jiorse descends, fulfilling 

 their steps. All the feet will then come down 

 in the same order, and to the same positions as at 

 the start. 



In this gait, by reason of the permanent bendings 

 of the body and neck S S, the left stifle joint and 

 the point of the left shoulder are held always in 

 rear of those of the right side,t and thus, although 

 each foot passes, the ivJiole leg does not. 



If, during tJie canter, the horse extend the neck-root 

 action from the neck backward, he launches into the 

 "full run,'' if he extend it from the ophidian S for- 

 ward he takes the " double trot.'' 



Von Oeynhausen is inclined to explain the " 07ily 

 two beats" which are heard and felt in the full run 

 as coming, not from the two hind-feet giving one 

 sound and the two fore-feet another, but from the 



* A3 before stated, the times of 2 and 3 are so close together in de- 

 scending that the ear cannot distinguish them, and also if the haunches 

 be weighted, 3 (the foot not the leg) precedes 2. 



t VoM Oeynhausen lays much stress on this. 



