THE GALLOP. 9 



passage, the diagonal legs are raised almost together, 

 and they reach the ground at nearly the same time, the 

 horse having been in air. 



Even at a low rate of speed, in a disunited trot, the 

 horse is free from the ground at each stride, and he may 

 at times have three feet bearing the weight ; but as the 

 speed is increased, the third foot is not permitted to 

 remain. Where one foot is on the ground it may be of 

 either extremity, and where two feet are planted they are a 

 foot of either extremity, and the foot diagonally disposed. 



In a rapid trot, the horse as is proved by the photo- 

 graph in Mr. Stanford's work, The Horse in Motion, 

 plate xxxvi., figures n, 12, 13, 20, 21, and 22 leaves 

 the ground always from a hind-foot to receive the weight 

 upon the diagonal fore-foot, and almost at the same time 

 the other hind-foot, and at no time are more than two 

 feet upon the ground together. 



THE RUN AND THE GALLOP. 



If I am not the first to point out differences between 

 the run and the gallop, I am, without doubt, the first 1 to 



1 Stonehenge declares that the canter is a distinct pace from the gallop, 

 and confidently asserts (Riding and Driving, p. 36) that in the former, ' one 

 foot is always in contact with the ground.' The photographs in Stanford's 

 book show that this description of the canter is inexact ; and, it may be 

 said, the Continental writers do not recognise it as a pace. 



