THE GAITS IN PARTICULAR. 



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The direction of the obliquity of this line denotes that it is the anterior members 

 which slacken in speed in the passage from the trot to the walk. 



"The transition in the passage from the trot to the gallop is very peculiar; it 

 is represented in the notation of Fig. 259. It is seen there, in the beginning 

 of the figure, that the trot is slightly 

 broken ; the dotted line which unites 

 the left diagonal beats, AG and PD, is 

 already somewhat oblique and marks a 

 slight tardiness of the posterior foot. This 

 obliquity continues to augment, but in 

 the left diagonal biped alone ; the right 

 diagonal biped, AD, PG, remains united, 

 even after the establishment of the gal- 

 lop. The transition from the trot to 

 the gallop is made not only by the 

 slowness of the movements of the pos- 

 terior foot, but also by the advance of the 

 anterior foot, so that the two diagonal 

 beats, which in the trot were synchro- I 

 nous, are now separated by a long inter- 

 val : this, in the ordinary gallop, consti- ! 

 tutes the long silence. 



"An inverse change produces the 

 transition from the gallop to the trot, as \ 

 can be seen in Fig. 260." I 



E. Leaping. \ 



I 

 Definition. Leaping is a [ 



progressive movement in which \ 

 the body is completely separated 

 from the ground to be projected 

 forward and upward by the sudden 

 impulsion given by the four mem- 

 bers. The latter act, according to 

 the case, simultaneously, in pairs, 

 or separately. This mode of pro- 

 gression, exacting a large amount 

 of force, is not accomplished by all 

 horses with equal facility. It takes 

 part, at times, in some gaits, par- 

 ticularly the trot and the gallop, but is executed by the animal spe- 

 cially under many circumstances. 



Divisions. Leaping, properly so called, may be (Fig. 261) as- 

 cending, longitudinal, and, finally, descending. All other divisions 



