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rack to be called artificial. But the truth is that, all over 

 the world, riders who excel in pure saddle-work not spe- 

 cially diverted to some one object — as hunting is to gallop- 

 ing and jumping obstacles, or racing to pure speed — but 

 with whom the mere riding for business or pleasure is the 

 object, and who aim at the greatest ease, handiness, and 

 ability in their horses, employ the amble or rack as the prin- 

 cipal gait, the canter next. Unquestionably, quoad the 

 saddle-horse, the rack must be called natural, the trot the 

 artificial gait. If I die before I have converted the w^orld 

 to this my opinion, let it be written on my tombstone — 

 but that is another stor3\ 



