68 THE CHANGES IN THE GALLOP. 



when the fore-leg is on the ground. The prin- 

 ciples are always the same. 



I employed two horses in catching the positions 

 in the gallop changes, one an Arab, trained and 

 ridden by Herr Oscar Fritz of Stuttgart, the other 

 a mare I had schooled for the purpose of photo- 

 graphing in action. I obtained examples of the 

 changes in the school-gallop and in the 3 tempo 

 gallop, and some of these I intend to have repro- 

 duced by the autotype process for a future edition 

 of Modern Horsemanship. 



During the experiments I made to obtain these 

 pictures I was enabled to formulate the rules by 

 which horses take the galloping pace. From the 

 halt, the w^alk, or the slow^ trot, the horse goes into 

 the gallop by taking the weight upon either of the 

 fore-legs, and by then carrying under the centre of 

 gravity the hind-leg opposite to the side with which 

 the lead is to be made. From the moment the 

 hind-leg is thus brought under the mass and planted, 

 the horse is in the gallop, and the other legs come 

 to the ground in their proper order. 



From the rapid trot, the horse goes into the 

 gallop by throwing the weight upon a fore-leg 

 (which will be the leading fore-leg when the gallop 

 is taken), then the opposite hind-leg is brought 

 under the centre of gravity and planted, and the 



