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has been called by some the sling-trot, and by others the slouching trot, of 

 the thoroughbred, that enables the best trotters to make their great speed; 

 the sling-lrot is simply the gait in which the animal reaches far forward 

 vithout raising the feet unnecessarily high, thus economizing time and 



nmscle. This movement, at an easy gait, of, say twelve miles an 

 hour, is well displayed in the cut illustrating the trotting movement. It 

 is not an artificial gait, as has been stated by some good English horse- 

 n)en. Every one who has reared a w^ell-bred colt has seen it, when fol- 

 lowing the dam, strike naturally into this gait, \vith head up and tail 



