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order take the advanced stride, begins to pass the 

 other hind-leg as soon as it is free, and before the 

 latter has been raised from the orround. 



In some very slow galloping movements, par- 

 ticularly in those upon two paths, in the voltes, etc., 

 it sometimes occurs that the horse does not go into 

 air at each stride. And I have seen school horses 

 in a very languid sort of a gallop — or rather canter 

 — appear to make the change by keeping the legs, 

 that have been making the extended strides, upon 

 the ground, and by passing these with the legs of 

 the other side, in a movement something like the 

 amble. There can be other irregular motions from 

 constrained and interrupted positions, such as the 

 half-halt ; but in such movements the horse is not 

 in the true gallop, and even then the principles I 

 have laid down for the change hold crood. 



In a true gallop the horse must go into air from 

 the advanced fore-foot at each stride, and the legs 

 must be planted in regular order, beginning with 

 the hind-leg opposite to that from which the horse 

 went into air. 



These remarks are founded upon experiments in 

 photography, and I was the first writer not only to 

 properly describe the gallop changes, but to procure 

 photographs of the horse in the act of making- 

 intended changes. In some of the published 



