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chanofe is made In one stride without either ex- 

 tremity being false.^ That is, in changing from 

 gallop right to gallop left, the hind-legs will change 

 their order (so that the right hind-leg will first be 

 planted and then the left hind-leg, which has passed 

 it, in advance of it) when they are free from the 

 ground in some stride, the forehand having the 

 weights ; and as soon as the right fore-leg is free 

 from the ground it will be advanced, and be again 

 planted and then the left fore-leg will be advanced 

 and brought to the ground, the horse going into air 

 for a new stride from the latter. 



In all the true gallops the hind-legs are com- 

 mitted to a certain order before the horse goes into 

 air. 



In the canter — a spurious gallop, in which a fore- 

 leg is planted before the second hind-leg comes to 

 the ground — the fore-legs must hasten their change 

 to complete the change in a stride ; and there are 

 phases in the change of the canter that very closely 

 resemble the pace known as the amble. 



In changes made in gallops of low speed and of 

 low collection, the hind leg, that will in the new 



^ The change that I have described is the true change, in accordance with 

 the nature of the pace ; but sometimes, even at Hberty, the horse changes 

 first the order of the fore-feet (which will cause the hind-legs to be false, as 

 they are already planted in the old order), and then to change the order of the 

 hind-legs in the next or some future stride, when the forehand has the 

 weight. 



