xvi CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER II. 



MOVEMENTS UPON PLACE 468 



A. Hearing 468 



B. Kicking 470 



PART II. 



MODE OF PROGRESSION, OR THE GAITS OF THE HORSE. 



CHAPTEK I. 



GENERALITIES OF THE GAITS 472 



ANALYSIS OF THE GAITS 479 



Systems of Notation of the Gaits 490 



SYNTHETIC STUDY OF THE MODE OF PROGRESSION . 496 



CHAPTER II. 



THE GAITS IN PARTICULAR 503 



A. The Amble, Pacing 504 



Broken Amble 509 



B. The Trot 510 



Broken Trot, Flying Trot : 522 



Racking 522 



Skipping 527 



The Canter 527 



Running Walk 529 



C. The Walk 530 



Backing 542 



D. The Gallop 544 



E. Leaping 569 



Bounding and Bucking 575 



CHAPTER III. 



DEFECTS IN THE GAITS 576 



A. Defects existing in the Anterior Members alone 577 



1. Dragging the Toe , 577 



2. Excessive Knee-Action 578 



3. Immobilized or Pegged Shoulders 578 



B. Defects existing in the Posterior Members alone 57$ 



1. String-halt 579 



2. Rotating Hocks 581 



C. Defects dependent upon the Mode of Association in raising the Ante- 



rior Feet and resting the Posterior 582 



Forging 582 



D. Defects existing separately or simultaneously in the Anterior or the 



Posterior Members 584 



1. Rocking 584 



2. Strain of the Loins 585 



B. Defects existing indiscriminately in the Four Members . ; 586 



1. Billarder, Paddling 586 



2. Interfering 586 



3. Lameness 588 



