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which it goes into air until all of the other three legs 

 have been planted before it is again called into use ; 

 and the other fore-leg is given the time that it takes 

 the fore-foot and one hind-foot, or the fore-foot and 

 both hind-feet (depending upon whether the pace 

 becomes the hand gallop or the full gallop) before 

 it is again called into use. 



We may see therefore, that the trot can never be 

 the most rapid pace as long as the hind-quarters of 

 the horse are stronger than the forehand ; for the 

 gallop is the only pace in which the feet are moved 

 in such order that the fore-legs have time to recover 

 from the too vigorous impulses of the stronger hind- 

 legs. 



While the rate of speed continues to be too great 

 for the fore-legs to work in unison with their corre- 

 sponding (diagonal) hind-legs, the pace will remain 

 the gallop ; and until the balance between the 

 extremities is restored, whatever the rate of speed 

 may be, the trot cannot be resumed. In other words, 

 so long as the point of balance is shifted at each 

 stride, so that each fore-leg cannot move with its 

 diagonal hind-leg, or before it, the horse must be in 

 some form of the galloping pace. 



PRINTED BY T. AND A. CONSTABLE, PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY, 

 AT THE EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS. 



