32 THE GALLOP. 



the so-called gallops in place and to the rear, or the 

 step-by-step changes, as they are school movements, 

 difficult to teach and to ride, and in each there are varia- 

 tions from the true gallop. But I may say that in the 

 first the fore-hand rises from the ground, and the hind-leg 

 which would have been leading in advancing is momen- 

 tarily detached from its place, then, as the mass sinks, 

 the raised hind- leg is planted and the fore-feet follow to 

 the ground. In the gallop to the rear, the hind-leg 

 which has been raised in the preceding action is moved 

 backwards, while the weight is taken by the other hind- 

 leg, which in turn is moved to the rear, and the fore-hand 

 then comes to the ground. In the step-by-step changes 

 the mass is held poised, by the aid of the bit, upon the 

 two hind- legs while the fore-legs change the lead, and as 

 the weight is taken by the fore-hand the order of the 

 hind-legs is changed. As the legs follow in their proper 

 order the effect to the eye is a change in air. There is 

 thus a momentary halt in that step in which in the run 

 the horse covers the most ground that is, in the step 

 between a hind-foot and a fore-foot. 



PRINTED BV T. AND A. CONSTABLE, PRINTERS TO HEK MAJESTY, 

 AT THE EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS. 



