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The length and stride of the trot is about 8 or 9 feet. 

 The pace is usually about 7 or 8 roiles an hour, but in horses 

 trained for speed in trotting the pace may approach that of 

 the gallop. 



Amble- — Here the two legs of the same side act together 

 as do the diagonal legs in trotting. 



Gallop. — At one stage of the pace all the feet are oft" the 

 ground and well tucked under the body (fig. 123, 1). One 



Fig. 123.— The Gallop, 

 hind foot, say the oft', first reaches the ground (2), 



and 



immediately after the opposite hind foot is planted in 

 advance of it (3). The oft" fore now comes to the ground, 

 and as it does so the oft" hind is lifted and the horse rests 

 on diagonal fore and hind legs (4). Then the off" hind foot 

 leaves the ground and the animal is now on the oft" fore 

 foot (5). The near fore foot is now planted and the off fore 

 leaves the ground (6), and finally the near fore is also raised 

 and the horse is again in the air. 

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