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to trot the 'instinct,' if you will must be controlled in great degree by 

 conformation of the parts concerned, combined with mental aptitude. 

 Both these essentials for the future trotter may be fixed by well known 

 laws of breeding, and become established features of the future trotting 

 breed. 



"That an animal with long hind cannon will be a galloper by 

 nature, and with short, a trotter, is shown most clearly by a study of 



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the measurements and gaits of those wild animals with which we are 

 familiar. The elephant, whose gait is nothing but a trot, albeit verging 

 toward a singlefoot, in spite of his enormous size and length of leg has 

 hock placed almost on the ground a cannon bone no longer than its 

 breadth, and never to exceed five inches. A little study of the parts 

 concerned will satisfy the most incredulous that the gait which he 



