THE GAITS 



PARTICULAR. 



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soil and to gather (rassembler) the members under the body, the left in 

 front of the right (Fig. 250). It is then that the projection takes 

 place ; the horse and the rider alike feel the effects ; both are more or 

 less raised and projected forward. 



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FIG. 249. The full gallop (anterior right 

 unipedal base). 



FIG. 250. The full gallop (projection). 



During the total duration of the contacts on the ground of a com- 

 plete step of the gallop, the body assumes, therefore, three successive 

 and different attitudes : it is first oblique upward and forward, then 

 almost horizontal, and, finally, oblique downward and forward. 



Sudden Passage from Station, from the Walk, and from 

 the Trot into the Gallop. Inverse Order of Transition. 

 The facts recorded above enable us to comprehend the mechanism of 

 these changes of gait. 



FIG. 251. Passage from station into the gallop, the horse being at liberty. 



Passage from Station into the Gallop. In order to elucidate this phe- 

 nomenon, we have made a series of experiments in which the horses, previously 

 placed, have been abandoned to themselves and then suddenly induced to start 

 off p.t the gallop. 



Below are our results (Fig. 251). 



