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the horse takes the weight upon the hind-legs and 

 turns to either side, the stride in which this is per- 

 formed is always in the school gallop. 



In the school gallop, therefore, the horse is not 

 perfectly balanced, for the weights are thrown back. 

 Nor is the horse in equilibrium in the canter, for 

 then it is uncollected, and the fore-leg of the same 

 side comes to the ground immediately after the 

 hind-leg that receives the weight when the horse 

 has been in air. Formerly the canter was not used 

 by school-riders, but it is now the pace in which 

 many of the galloping movements are made. 

 Baucher is accused of having introduced it to 

 enable him to produce the step-by-step changes; 

 and I believe that where those changes are made 

 true in each stride, the pace is usually the canter ; 

 though there is no reason why they might not be 

 performed in the gallop of three beats. 



As the gallop is a series of leaps from one of the 

 fore-legs, it will be seen that it cannot be performed 

 in place or to the rear, but there are certain move- 

 ments which are called The Gallop in Place and 

 The Gallop Backwards. These may be procured 

 either from the pesade or from a slow gallop. To 

 teach the gallop in place from the ordinary gallop, 

 the horse will be ridden at a very slow rate of 

 speed in close union, and in time be brought to 



