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NOTATION OF THE PACES OF THE HORSE. 



as both feet are on the ground at certain periods of this pace, the rect- 

 angles would naturally have to overlap each other. We may, how- 

 ever, get over it by placing the diagrammatic prints of, say, the left 

 foot on a line above those of the right foot. In this manner, in order 

 to represent the run, we would place these footprints as they are shown 

 in Fig. 258 ; not as in Fig. 257. We may indicate the walk by Fig. 259, 

 in which I have assumed that both feet are on the ground for one-sixth 

 of the period of support of each foot. 



We must remember that these scales or notations give us only the 

 order of succession of the feet, and their respective and proportionate 

 periods of support and suspension ; but they do not furnish us with 



Fig. 270. — Canter with Suspension (Figs. 138 to 146). 



Fig. 271.— Fast Gallop (Figs. 156 to 171). 



Fig. 272. -The Leap (Figs. 229 to 242). 



a clue to the speed of any particular pace, except that, when there is 

 a period of suspension, the longer it is, the greater, as a rule, will be 

 the speed. 



To construct the respective notations of the various paces of the 

 horse, we may employ the rectangles of Fig. 257 for the fore legs, and 

 may use similar ones, placed underneath them, for the hind legs. Thus, 

 Fig. 261 will give us the scale of the trot as shown by Figs. 64 to 67. 



My readers will notice that the dotted hnes on Fig. 262 mark the 

 respective moments at which the horse assumed the positions depicted 

 in Figs. 68 to 72. In the remaining notations in this chapter I have 

 similarly marked the connections between these scales and the corre- 

 sponding figures in Chapters XII. and XIII. 



